Romans 13:11 KJV — MannaFest

Romans 13:11

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when wefirstbelieved.

WEB

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

YLT

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

DBT

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.

About this book

New Testament

▾

Romans — Paul's gospel set out in order. Four great movements: sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty — closing with sustained calls to service and unity.

Author: Paul the apostle, dictated to Tertius (Rom 16:22)
Date: c. AD 57, from Corinth before the Jerusalem offering

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 13 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Cross-references

43 verses on the floor

Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
1 Thessalonians 5:5–8
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Show all 43 cross-references ▾

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The apostle therefore, for the obviating of this reproach and the clearing of Christianity from it, shows that obedience to civil magistrates is one of the laws of Christ, whose religion helps to make people good subjects; and it was very unjust to charge upon Christianity that faction and rebellion to which its principles and rules are so directly contrary.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

3 ), high time indeed, for behold the bridegroom cometh. " 2. "The salvation we are upon the brink of: Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed --than when we first believed, and so took upon us the profession of Christianity. The eternal happiness we chose for our portion is now nearer to us than it was when we became Christians.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The day dawns when we receive faith, and then sleep gives place. Then it is time to rise, to arm, to walk, to work, lest sleep steal upon us again. Final salvation, glory, is nearer to us now, than when we first believed - It is continually advancing, flying forward upon the swiftest wings of time.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

On this verse

loading…

Words6

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G499149× in canon G223561× in canon G254084× in canon G3753103× in canon G1453142× in canon G3568145× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

ROM 13:11EPH 5:14 ISA 60:1
ROM 13:11EPH 5:14 ROM 13:11-12
ROM 13:11EPH 5:14 ISA 26:19
ROM 13:11EPH 5:14 1TH 5:6
ROM 13:11EPH 5:14 ISA 52:1
ROM 13:111PE 4:7 JAS 5:8-9
ROM 13:111PE 4:7 1PE 1:13
ROM 13:111PE 4:7 2TI 4:5

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Romans 13 →