Romans 13:12
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.
KJV
ἡ νὺξ προέκοψεν, ἡ δὲ ἡμέρα ἤγγικεν. ἀποθώμεθα οὖν τὰ ἔργα τοῦ σκότους, ἐνδυσώμεθα δὲ τὰ ὅπλα τοῦ φωτός.
Greek NT
Nox præcessit, dies autem appropinquavit. Abjiciamus ergo opera tenebrarum, et induamur arma lucis.
Vulgate
The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
ASV
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἀποβαλώμεθα — SBLGNT
- ἀποβαλώμεθα — SBLGNT
- ἀποθώμεθα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐνδυσώμεθα δὲ — SBLGNT
- ἐνδυσώμεθα δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- καὶ ἐνδυσώμεθα — Robinson-Pierpont
Themes
Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:53 — For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
- 1John 1:5 — This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
- 1John 1:7 — But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- 1John 2:8 — Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
- 1John 2:8 — Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
- 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- 1Pet 4:1 — Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
- 1Thess 5:5 — Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
- 1Thess 5:8 — But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
- 2Cor 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,
- 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
- 2Cor 10:4 — (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
- Col 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
- Col 3:10 — And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
- Eph 4:22 — That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
- Eph 4:24 — And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
- Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
- Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
- Eph 6:11 — Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- Eph 6:11 — Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- Ezek 18:31 — 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?
- Isa 2:20 — In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- Isa 30:22 — Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence
- Isa 59:17 — For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
- Jas 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.
- Jas 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.
- Job 24:14 — The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
- John 3:19 — And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
- John 12:35 — Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
- Matt 18:8 — Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into
- Prov 7:9 — In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- Rev 1:3 — Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
- Rev 22:10 — And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
- Rev 22:10 — And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
- Rom 13:14 — But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
- Song 2:17 — Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
- Titus 2:12 — Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;