Romans 13:13
Good News Translation
Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day--no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy.

New Revised Standard Version
let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Contemporary English Version
So behave properly, as people do in the day. Don't go to wild parties or get drunk or be vulgar or indecent. Don't quarrel or be jealous.

New American Bible
let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

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Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

us.

Luke 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

Galatians 5:16,25 I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. . . .

Ephesians 4:1,17 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called: . . .

Ephesians 5:2,8,15 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. . . .

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

Philippians 3:16-20 Nevertheless, whereunto we are come, that we be of the same mind, let us also continue in the same rule. . . .

Philippians 4:8,9 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things. . . .

Colossians 1:10 That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God:

1 Thessalonians 2:12 We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

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1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

2 John 1:4 I was exceeding glad that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

honestly.

Acts 2:15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day:

1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

2 Peter 2:13 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

rioting.

Proverbs 23:20 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Isaiah 22:12,13 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: . . .

Isaiah 28:7,8 But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment. . . .

Amos 6:4-6 You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd; . . .

Matthew 24:48-51 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming: . . .

Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.

Luke 17:27,28 They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. . . .

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:21 Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

1 Peter 4:3-5 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols. . . .

chambering.

1 Corinthians 6:9,10 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: . . .

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,

Ephesians 5:3-5 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: . . .

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication: . . .

2 Peter 2:14,18-20 Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction. . . .

Jude 1:23 But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.

strife.

Galatians 5:15,21,26 But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another. . . .

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

James 4:5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

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

Context
Put On Christ
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. 14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:20
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

1 Corinthians 3:3
For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man?

1 Corinthians 6:9
Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

Galatians 5:21
Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 4:12


1 Peter 4:3
For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.

2 Peter 2:13
Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

Romans 13:12
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