But ye are a 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:
But ye ben a chosun kyn, a kyngli preesthod, hooli folc, a puple of purchasing, þat ye telle þe vertues of hym, þat clepide you fro derknessis in to his wondirful liyt.