Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as strangers in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
To the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion ...  These are the great words, once applicable to Jews only, which have now been given by God himself to the church of Jesus Christ which has become through ancient Israel's rejection of the Messiah the true and only Israel of God in the new dispensation.