Romans 13:13 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹³ Let us walk about decently, as in the day, not in revellings and drunkenness; not in chamberings and lasciviousness; not in strife and envy.

⁴⁸ But as to the vicious servant, who shall say within himself, My master defers his return, ⁴⁹ and shall beat his fellow-servants, and feast and carouse with drunkards; ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour of which he is not apprised, ⁵¹ and having discarded him, will assign him his portion among the perfidious. Weeping and gnashing of teeth shall be there.

¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another. ¹⁶ I say, then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁹ Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²¹ envying, murders, intoxications, revellings, and such like: concerning which I foretell you now, as I also have foretold, that they who practice these things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you, as sojourners and travelers, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. ¹² Have your behavior comely, among the Gentiles, that, whereas, they speak against you, as evil doers, having beheld your good works, they may glorify God, in the day of visitation.

³ For the time which has passed of life, is sufficient to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, having walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excesses in wine, revellings, carousals, and abominable idolatries. ⁴ On which account they wonder that you do not run with them, into the same sink of debauchery, reviling you,- ⁵ who shall give account to him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, blameless observers of all the Lord's commandments and ordinances.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man, that wore purple and fine linen, and feasted splendidly every day.

²⁷ They eat, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, when the deluge came, and destroyed them all. ²⁸ In like manner as it was in the days of Lot, they eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

³⁴ Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you unawares: for, as a net,

¹⁵ for these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is but the third hour of the day:

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹ I, then, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling, by which you are called,

¹⁷ This, therefore, I say, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind;

² and walk in love, even as Christ has loved us, and has given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet smelling savor. ³ But whoredom, and all uncleanness, and inordinate desire- let them not even be named among you; (as it becomes saints;) ⁴ nor obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor double meanings, nor things uncomely; but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lascivious man, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

⁸ For you were formerly darkness; but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light.

¹⁵ See, then, that you walk accurately: not as fools, but as wise men;

¹⁸ And we not drunk with wine, by which comes dissoluteness; but be filled with the Spirit:

²⁷ Only behave in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; that whether I shall come and see you, or, being absent, shall hear of your affairs, that you are steadfast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel;

³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but, in humbleness of mind esteem each other better that yourselves:

¹⁶ Moreover, let us walk in conformity to what we have attained. ¹⁷ Brethren, be imitators of men, and consider attentively those who walk so, as you have us for an example. ¹⁸ (For I have often told you, and now tell you, even weeping, that many walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ; ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetites, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) ²⁰ But we are citizens of heaven, whence, also, we earnestly expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are venerable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are benevolent, whatever things are of good fame; if there be any virtue, and if any praise be due, attentively consider these things; ⁹ those, also, which you have learned, and received, and heard, and seen with me, practice; and the God of peace will be with you.

¹⁰ that you may walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, bringing forth fruit by every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

⁵ Mortify, therefore, your members which are on the earth; fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and licentiousness, which is idolatry;

¹² and testifying that you should walk worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom of glory.

³ for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom- ⁴ that every one of you should know how to possess his own body in sanctification and honor- ⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God.

¹² that you may walk decently toward them who are without, and may have need of nothing.

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter anger and strife in your heart, do you not boast and lie against the truth? ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which comes from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish: ¹⁶ for where there is anger and strife, there is disorder, and every evil work.

⁵ Do you think that the scripture speaks in vain? And does the spirit, who dwells in us, strongly incline to envy?

¹ Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speaking; ² as newborn babes, earnestly desire the unadulterated milk of the word, that you may grow by it.

¹³ receiving the due reward of unrighteousness. These delight to spend the day in luxurious festivity: they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits when they feast with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of the adulteress, incessantly sinning, alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised with insatiable desires; an accursed progeny:

¹⁸ for, speaking great swelling words of falsehood, they allure by the lusts of the flesh, even by lasciviousness, those who have actually fled away from them who are living in error. ¹⁹ They promise them liberty, whilst they themselves are slaves of corruption: for every one is enslaved by that which overcomes him. ²⁰ Now, if, having fled away from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and being again entangled, they are overcome by them; their last condition is worse than the first.

⁶ He who says he abides in him, ought, himself, also, so to walk even as he walked.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly, when I found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.

²³ but others, save by fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.