Romans 13:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
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“The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 13:12 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 24:14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
- Song of Solomon 2:17Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
- Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
- Isaiah 30:22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
- John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- Romans 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 6:7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
- Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- Ephesians 6:11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- Colossians 3:8But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
- James 1:21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
- 1 Peter 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
- 1 John 1:5And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
- 1 John 2:8Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.
- Revelation 1:3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
- Revelation 22:10Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.
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