1 Peter 2:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:24

And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.

Hosea 2:23

and I will sow him for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Lo-ruhamah, and I will say to Lo-ammi, “You are my people,” and he shall say, “You are my God.”

Romans 10:19

Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will use those who are not a nation to make you jealous; with a foolish nation I will provoke you.”

Romans 11:30

Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,

1 Corinthians 7:25

Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.