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Not so you; you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a people God means to have for himself; it is yours to proclaim the exploits of the God who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. (1 Peter 2, 9)
Time was when you were not a people at all, now you are God’s people; once you were unpitied, and now his pity is yours.✻ (1 Peter 2, 10)
Beloved, I call upon you to be like strangers and exiles, to resist those natural appetites which besiege the soul. (1 Peter 2, 11)
Your life amidst the Gentiles must be beyond reproach; decried as malefactors, you must let them see, from your honourable behaviour, what you are; they will praise God for you, when his time comes to have mercy on them.✻ (1 Peter 2, 12)
Free men, but the liberty you enjoy is not to be made a pretext for wrong-doing; it is to be used in God’s service. (1 Peter 2, 16)
Give all men their due; to the brethren, your love; to God, your reverence; to the king, due honour. (1 Peter 2, 17)
You who are slaves must be submissive to your masters, and shew all respect, not only to those who are kind and considerate, but to those who are hard to please. (1 Peter 2, 18)
It does a man credit when he bears undeserved ill treatment with the thought of God in his heart. (1 Peter 2, 19)
If you do wrong and are punished for it, your patience is nothing to boast of; it is the patience of the innocent sufferer that wins credit in God’s sight. (1 Peter 2, 20)
Indeed, you are engaged to this by the call of Christ; he suffered for our sakes, and left you his own example; you were to follow in his footsteps. (1 Peter 2, 21)
He did no wrong, no treachery was found on his lips;✻ (1 Peter 2, 22)
he was ill spoken of, and spoke no evil in return, suffered, and did not threaten vengeance, gave himself up into the hands of injustice.✻ (1 Peter 2, 23)
