Romans 13:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 13

¹²The 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.

Romans 13:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 18:31-32
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? …
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2 Corinthians 6:7
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Ephesians 6:11-18
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. …

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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. 12)

12. The night--of evil is far spent, the day--of consummated triumph over it is at hand: let us therefore cast off--as a dress the works of darkness--all works holding of the kingdom and period of darkness, with which, as followers of the risen Saviour, our connection has been dissolved. and let us put on the armour of light--described at length in Ep 6:11-18.