Romans 13:12

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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.

Before the day breaks
and the shadows flee,
turn to me, my love, and be like a gazelle
or a young stag on the divided mountains.

Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

You took off

your former way of life, the old self

that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in Him.

Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

Watch! Be alert! For you don’t know when the time is coming.