"Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and…" — Romans 13:13

Romans 13:13 · KJV

“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}”

— Romans 13:13

Verse 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.

Verse 14

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to {fulfil} the lusts {thereof}.

Romans 13 — Context

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.

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.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to {fulfil} the lusts {thereof}.

Cross References

Galatians 5:21

Envyings, 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 5:18

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

For this is the will of God, {even} your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1 Peter 4:3-5

For 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 4:12

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and {that} ye may have lack of nothing. {of...: or, of no man}

Ephesians 5:15

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

1 John 2:6

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Luke 21:34

And 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.