1 Peter 2:10 ASV

⁸  and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

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.