9But you are an elect 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:
10who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
12having 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.
13Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord`s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
14or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to those who do well.
15For so is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
