1 Peter 2:9-10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

10 

Once you were not a people,

    but now you are God’s people;

once you had not received mercy,

    but now you have received mercy.