7 to you, then, who are believing 'is' the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,
8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;
9 and ye 'are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
10 who 'were' once not a people, and 'are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.
11 Beloved, I call upon 'you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
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