Addressing anointed Christians, Peter wrote: “You are ‘ a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for special possession, that you should declare abroad the excellencies ’ of the one that called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ”
( यिर्म. ३१: ३४) अशा प्रकारे, त्यांच्या पापांची कायदेशीर रीत्या क्षमा झाल्यानंतर, ते एक “याजकराज्य ” बनण्याच्या स्थितीत असणार होते.