1Pet.2.10

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.

1Pet.2.10

from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted. [JC]

1Pet.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.

1Pet.2.10

who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.