And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever; and you, O Lord, became their God.
1 Peter 2:10 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional 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. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God's people; once you were unpitied, but now you are pitied and have received mercy. [Hos. 2:23.] American Standard Version (1901) who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Common English Bible Once you weren’t a people, but now you are God’s people. Once you hadn’t received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Catholic Public Domain Version Though in past times you were not a people, yet now you are the people of God. Though you had not obtained mercy, yet now you have obtained mercy. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever; and you, O Lord, became their God.
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.”
Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,
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.
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,
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.