1 Peter 2:11 ASV

⁹  But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for `God's' own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

¹⁰  who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

¹¹  Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

¹²  having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹³  Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;