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Romans 13:13

WEB

13Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

KJV

13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

BSB

13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

FBV

13Let's behave properly, showing that we're people who are living in the light. We shouldn't spend our time going to wild parties and getting drunk, or having affairs and acting immorally, or getting into fights and being jealous.

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Extra References

Galatians 5:21

21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.


Ephesians 5:18

18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,


1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, 4that each one of you know how to control his own body[+] in sanctification and honor, 5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,


Ephesians 5:15

15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,


1 John 2:6

6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.


Luke 21:34

34So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.


1 Peter 4:3-5

3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. 4They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you. 5They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.


1 Thessalonians 4:12

12that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.


1 Thessalonians 2:12

12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.


Colossians 1:10

10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,