Cross references

Romans 13:12

The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 13:12 BSB

Romans 13:12 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 19 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 18:31–32 (32 votes) and Ephesians 5:11 (29 votes). 43 other verses point back to it. It links with 26 other books, from Genesis 38 to Revelation 22.

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Which verses does Romans 13:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!

  2. Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

  3. in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

  4. But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, …

  5. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. …

  6. James 1:2120 votes

    Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

  7. Romans 13:1417 votes

    Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

  8. to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

  9. Isaiah 30:2216 votes

    So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

  10. For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. …

  11. 1 Peter 2:111 votes

    Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

Which verses point to Romans 13:12?

The 10 strongest of 43.