1 Peter 2:9 WEB

⁷  For you therefore who believe is the honor, but for such as are disobedient, 'The stone which the builders rejected, Has become the chief cornerstone,'

⁸  and, 'A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.' For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.

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;