1 Peter 2:11 WEB

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

¹⁰  who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

¹¹  Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

¹²  having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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