9. But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10. Who in time past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy; but now have obtained mercy.
11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,
12. Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works, which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13. Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling;
14. Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the good:
15. For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: