Romans 13:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 13

¹¹And 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.

Romans 13:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:5-8
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. …
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Mark 13:35-37
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-14)

We are here taught a lesson of sobriety and godliness in ourselves. Our main care must be to look to ourselves. Four things we are here taught, as a Christian’s directory for his day’s work: when to awake, how to dress ourselves, how to walk, and what provision to make. I. When to awake: Now it is high time to awake (Rom. 13:11), to awake out of the sleep of sin (for a sinful condition is a sleepi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. And that--rather, “And this [do]” knowing the time, that now it is high time--literally, “the hour has already come.” to awake out of sleep--of stupid, fatal indifference to eternal things. for now is our salvation--rather, “the salvation,” or simply “salvation.” nearer than when we--first believed--This is in the line of all our Lord’s teaching, which represents the decisive day of Christ’s s…