KJV King James Version
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
WEB World English Bible
Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
ASV American Standard Version
Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
Surrounding context — Romans 13
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
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, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongἡμέρᾳG2250 · hēmeradayεὐσχημόνωςG2156 · euschēmonōsproperlyπεριπατήσωμεν,G4043 · peripateōto walkμὴG3361 · mēnotκώμοιςG2970 · kōmosorgyκαὶG2532 · kaiandμέθαις,G3178 · methēdrunkennessμὴG3361 · mēnotκοίταιςG2845 · koitēbedκαὶG2532 · kaiandἀσελγείαις,G766 · aselgeiadebaucheryμὴG3361 · mēnotἔριδιG2054 · erisquarrelκαὶG2532 · kaiandζήλῳ·G2205 · zēloszeal
Cross-references
Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.Ephesians 5:18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;1 Thessalonians 4:3-5For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:1 Peter 4:3-5For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:1 Thessalonians 4:12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.Ephesians 5:15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,1 John 2:6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.1 Peter 2:1-2Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:1 Thessalonians 5:17Pray without ceasing.1 Thessalonians 2:12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.Colossians 1:10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;Galatians 5:25-26If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.Philippians 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;Ephesians 5:2-5And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.2 Peter 2:18-20For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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