1 Peter 2:5

2:5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer 1  spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9

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 2  of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:12

2:12 and maintain good conduct 3  among the non-Christians, 4  so that though 5  they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears. 6 

1 tn Grk “unto a holy priesthood to offer.”

2 sn This verse contains various allusions and quotations from Exod 19:5-6; 23:22 (LXX); Isa 43:20-21; and Mal 3:17.

3 tn Grk “keeping your conduct good.”

4 tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.

5 tn Grk “in order that in what they malign you.”

6 tn Or “when he visits.” Grk “in the day of visitation,” denoting a time when God intervenes directly in human affairs, either for blessing (Luke 1:68, 78; 7:16; 19:44) or for judgment (Isa 10:3; Jer 6:15). This phrase may be a quotation from Isa 10:3, in which case judgment is in view here. But blessing seems to be the point, since part of the motive for good behavior is winning the non-Christian over to the faith (as in 3:1; also apparently in 3:15; cf. Matt 5:16).