Romans 13:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Night

Song of Songs 2:17

1 John 2:8

Cast

1 Peter 2:1

Works

General references

Mark 13:33

Bible References

Night

until the day break, and till the shadows be gone. Come again privily, O my beloved, like as a Roe or a young hart unto the mountains.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, a thing which is true in him, and also in you: for the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

Cast

Then, then shall man cast away his gods of silver and gold - which he nevertheless had made to honour them - unto moles and bats

Ye shall destroy also the covering of your silver images, and the decking of your golden idols. Even as filthiness shall ye put them away, and say, "Get you hence."

Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done: make you new hearts and a new spirit. Wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel?

so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:

Wherefore, lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and all backbiting:

Works

Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.

And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and the men have loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather rebuke them.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkness.

And this is the tidings which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, a thing which is true in him, and also in you: for the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

General references

Take heed: watch, and pray, for ye know not when the time is: