You should have highlighted the 1st verse instead
Peter was addressing the Jews scattered abroad in his letters (1 Peter 1:1).
Gentiles do not belong to any specific nation that is born of God so it makes no sense to describe gentile believers are scattered. God never calls us a "holy nation" for the same reason.
Peter would also not be writing a letter to gentile believers, after the agreement he made with Paul, together with James and John, in Galatians 2:9
From Wikipedia:
"The social makeup of the addressees of 1 Peter is debatable because some scholars interpret "strangers" (1:1) as Christians longing for their home in heaven, some interpret it as literal "strangers", or as an Old Testament adaptation applied to Christian believers."
The words "Israel" and "Jew" are found nowhere within the entire epistle of 1 Peter.
Peter's focus is on these "strangers" as Christians, exclusively and independent of their DNA.
Your racialization attempts fail again.
And your claim that "God never calls us a holy nation" directly contradicts and is fully repudiated by 1 Peter 2:9.
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