Almost every identity statement in the New Testament is plural, and English hides it. A chosen people. A royal priesthood. Ambassadors. Children of God. The you in those sentences is you all, and Peter is describing a congregation rather than handing out a description for a mirror. That does not make them less true of any of us; it means we were never meant to read them alone. The nineteen passages below start where identity starts in Scripture, which is…
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