1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Note Hosea 2:23
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.
In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- were
- Hosea 1:9, 10; Romans 9:25, 26
- obtained
- Hosea 2:23; Romans 11:6, 7, 30; 1 Corinthians 7:25; 1 Timothy 1:13; Hebrews 4:16