Romans 13:12
Good News Translation
The night is nearly over, day is almost here. Let us stop doing the things that belong to the dark, and let us take up weapons for fighting in the light.

New Revised Standard Version
the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;

Contemporary English Version
Night is almost over, and day will soon appear. We must stop behaving as people do in the dark and be ready to live in the light.

New American Bible
the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness [and] put on the armor of light;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

night.

Songs 2:17 Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

1 John 2:8 Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now shineth.

cast.

Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Isaiah 30:22 And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.

Ezekiel 18:31,32 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel? . . .

Ephesians 4:22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Colossians 3:8,9 But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth. . . .

James 1:21 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

works.

Job 24:14-17 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief. . . .

John 3:19-21 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . .

Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-7 For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness. . . .

1 John 1:5-7 And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness. . . .

1 John 2:8,9 Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now shineth. . . .

put.

Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

2 Corinthians 6:7 In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:

Ephesians 6:11-18 Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. . . .

Colossians 3:10-17 And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Context
Put On Christ
11And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. 12The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. 13Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29
This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

2 Corinthians 6:7
In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:

2 Corinthians 10:4
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,

Ephesians 5:8
For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them.

Ephesians 6:11
Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil.

Ephesians 6:13
Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day and to stand in all things perfect.

Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of justice:

1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

Hebrews 12:1
And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 5:8
Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,

2 Peter 3:11
Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?

1 John 2:8
Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now shineth.

1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour.

Revelation 1:3
Blessed is he that readeth and heareth the words of this prophecy: and keepeth those things which are written in it. For the time is at hand.

Revelation 22:10
And he saith to me: Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book. For the time is at hand.

Romans 13:11
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