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Romans 13:12

The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

In Context

11And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.

13Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

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Cross References

Job 24:14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.

Isaiah 2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Romans 13:14But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

Ephesians 4:22for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

Ephesians 6:11Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Matthew Henry on Romans 13:12-14

The Christian Directory. ( a. d. 58.) 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh,… Read the whole commentary →

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