1 Peter 2:11 YLT

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,

¹²  having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

¹³  Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,