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But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God`s own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
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who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
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having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.