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Butye are a chosengeneration, a royalpriesthood, an holynation, a peculiar[a]*people;that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath calledyou out ofdarknessintohismarvellouslight:
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Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
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And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;