Romans 13:14

But clothe yourselves with our Lord Jesus Messiah: and be not thoughtful about your flesh, for the indulgence of appetites.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof .

In Context

13And let us walk decorously, as in daylight; not in merriment, nor in drunkenness, nor in impurity of the bed, nor in envy and strife.

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Cross References

Galatians 3:27For they who have been baptized into the Messiah, have put on the Messiah.

Galatians 5:24And they who are of the Messiah, have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its cravings.

Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members that are on the earth; whoredom, impurity, and the passions, and evil concupiscence, and avarice which is idolatry.

1 Peter 2:11My beloved, I entreat you as strangers and pilgrims, separate yourselves from all lusts of the body; for they war against the soul.

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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