2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues 1 of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:25
2:25 For you were going astray like sheep 2 but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
1 sn This verse contains various allusions and quotations from Exod 19:5-6; 23:22 (LXX); Isa 43:20-21; and Mal 3:17.