⁹But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests,#2:9 Greek a royal priesthood. a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰“Once you had no identity as a people;now you are God’s people.Once you received no mercy;now you have received God’s mercy.”#2:10 Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23.