9 But you are a chosen race,*,*,*a royal priesthood,*,*a holy nation,*,*a people for his possession,*,*so that you may proclaim the praises*,*,* of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.  *10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,  * but now you have received mercy.