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Rom. 13:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

Let us walk δhonestlyq, as in the day; not in riotingr and drunkenness, not in chamberingt and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Phil. 4:8• ⁸For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things. (Phil. 4:8)

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1 Peter 2:12• ¹²having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:12)

or, decently.

1 Peter 4:3• ³For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries. (1 Peter 4:3)

1 Cor. 6:9‑10• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑10)

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us.

Luke 1:6• ⁶And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. (Luke 1:6)

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Gal. 5:16,25• ¹⁶But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh's lust.
²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit. (Gal. 5:16,25)

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Eph. 4:1,17• ¹*I*, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,
¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind, (Eph. 4:1,17)

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Eph. 5:2,8,15• ²and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
⁸for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,
¹⁵See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise, (Eph. 5:2,8,15)

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Phil. 1:27• ²⁷Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings; (Phil. 1:27)

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Phil. 3:16‑20• ¹⁶But whereto we have attained, let us walk in the same steps.
¹⁷Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;
¹⁸(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)
²⁰for *our* commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, (Phil. 3:16‑20)

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Phil. 4:8‑9• ⁸For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.
⁹What ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you. (Phil. 4:8‑9)

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Col. 1:10• ¹⁰so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God; (Col. 1:10)

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1 Thess. 2:12• ¹²that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12)

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1 Thess. 4:12• ¹²that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one. (1 Thess. 4:12)

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1 John 2:6• ⁶He that says he abides in him ought, even as *he* walked, himself also so to walk. (1 John 2:6)

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2 John 4• ⁴I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father. (2 John 4)

honestly.

or, decently.

as.

Acts 2:15• ¹⁵for these are not full of wine, as *ye* suppose, for it is the third hour of the day; (Acts 2:15)

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1 Thess. 5:17• ¹⁷pray unceasingly; (1 Thess. 5:17)

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2 Peter 2:13• ¹³receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you; (2 Peter 2:13)

rioting.

Prov. 23:20• ²⁰Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh. (Prov. 23:20)

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Isa. 22:12‑13• ¹²And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;
¹³and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine:--Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. (Isa. 22:12‑13)

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Isa. 28:7‑8• ⁷But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment.
⁸For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no more place. (Isa. 28:7‑8)

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Amos 6:4‑6• ⁴that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall;
⁵that chant to the sound of the lute, and invent them instruments of music, like David;
⁶that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but are not grieved for the breach of Joseph. (Amos 6:4‑6)

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Matt. 24:48‑51• ⁴⁸But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,
⁴⁹and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;
⁵⁰the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,
⁵¹and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:48‑51)

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Luke 16:19• ¹⁹Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day. (Luke 16:19)

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Luke 17:27‑28• ²⁷they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them;
²⁸and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; (Luke 17:27‑28)

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Luke 21:34• ³⁴But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares; (Luke 21:34)

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1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:10)

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Gal. 5:21• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:21)

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Eph. 5:18• ¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, (Eph. 5:18)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

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1 Peter 4:3‑5• ³For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.
⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you;
⁵who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. (1 Peter 4:3‑5)

chambering.

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Gal. 5:19• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, (Gal. 5:19)

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Eph. 5:3‑5• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:3‑5)

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. (Col. 3:5)

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1 Thess. 4:3‑5• ³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
⁴that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
⁵(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,) (1 Thess. 4:3‑5)

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2 Peter 2:14,18‑20• ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first. (2 Peter 2:14,18‑20)

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Jude 23• ²³but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. (Jude 23)

strife.

Gal. 5:15,21,26• ¹⁵but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
²⁶Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:15,21,26)

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Phil. 2:3• ³let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves; (Phil. 2:3)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:5• ⁵Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? (James 4:5)

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1 Peter 2:1‑2• ¹Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
²as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation, (1 Peter 2:1‑2)

J. N. Darby Translation

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.

W. Kelly Translation

As in daylight, let us walk becomingly, not in revels and drunkenness, not in chambering and indecency, not in strife and envy;