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.

Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,

but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth;

Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding vice, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,

And this is the judgment; that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.

Observe, watch, for you know not when the time is.