⁴ knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election,

⁴ even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before ^[a]him in love:

⁹ But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: