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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 noble, whatsoever just, whatsoever pure, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good report, if there [is] any virtue, and if any praise, these things consider. (Phil. 4:8)

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1 Peter 2:12• ¹²having your behaviour comely among the Gentiles; that in what they speak against you as evil-doers, they, as observing, may from your comely works glorify God in [the] day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:12)

or, decently.

1 Peter 4:3• ³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries; (1 Peter 4:3)

1 Cor. 6:9‑10• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (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 by the Spirit, and ye shall in no wise fulfil flesh's lust.
²⁵If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. (Gal. 5:16,25)

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Eph. 4:1,17• ¹I exhort you therefore, I the prisoner in [the] Lord, that ye walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
¹⁷This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind, (Eph. 4:1,17)

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Eph. 5:2,8,15• ²even as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweet smell.
⁸for ye were once darkness but now [are] light in the Lord: walk as children of light
¹⁵See therefore how carefully ye walk, not as unwise but as wise, (Eph. 5:2,8,15)

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Phil. 1:27• ²⁷Only conduct yourselves worthily of the gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you or absent, I may hear of your concerns, that ye stand in one spirit, with one soul striving together with the faith of the gospel; (Phil. 1:27)

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Phil. 3:16‑20• ¹⁶Nevertheless unto what we have attained, walk by the same, [mind the same].
¹⁷Be joint-imitators of me, brethren, and mark those so walking as ye have us for a pattern.
¹⁸For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ,
¹⁹whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the belly, and they glory in their shame, who mind the things of earth.
²⁰For our commonwealth has its being in [the] heavens, from whence also we await [as] Saviour [the] Lord Jesus Christ, (Phil. 3:16‑20)

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Phil. 4:8‑9• ⁸For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever noble, whatsoever just, whatsoever pure, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good report, if there [is] any virtue, and if any praise, these things consider.
⁹Those things which ye also learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, do; and the God of peace shall be with you. (Phil. 4:8‑9)

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Col. 1:10• ¹⁰to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the full knowledge of God, (Col. 1:10)

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1 Thess. 2:12• ¹²that ye should walk worthily of God that calleth you unto his own kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12)

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1 Thess. 4:12• ¹²that ye may walk honourably toward those without, and may have need of nothing. (1 Thess. 4:12)

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1 John 2:6• ⁶He that saith he abideth in him ought, even as he walked, himself also to walk. (1 John 2:6)

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

honestly.

or, decently.

as.

Acts 2:15• ¹⁵For these are not drunken 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 as they shall wages of unrighteousness, accounting [their] ephemeral luxury pleasure; spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their love feasts, feasting with you; (2 Peter 2:13)

rioting.

Prov. 23:20• (Prov. 23:20)

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Isa. 22:12‑13• (Isa. 22:12‑13)

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Isa. 28:7‑8• (Isa. 28:7‑8)

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Amos 6:4‑6• (Amos 6:4‑6)

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Matt. 24:48‑51• ⁴⁸But if that evil bondman shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth;
⁴⁹and shall begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and shall eat and drink with the drunken,
⁵⁰the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour that he knoweth not,
⁵¹and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him 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 Noah 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 weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares, (Luke 21:34)

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1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (1 Cor. 6:10)

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Gal. 5:21• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, 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 dissoluteness, 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 the fleshly lusts such as war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11)

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1 Peter 4:3‑5• ³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;
⁴wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously,
⁵who shall render account to him that is ready to judge living and 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 covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath 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 that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; (Col. 3:5)

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1 Thess. 4:3‑5• ³For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
⁴that each of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
⁵not in passion of lust, even as also the Gentiles that know not God; (1 Thess. 4:3‑5)

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2 Peter 2:14,18‑20• ¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁸For uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is worsted, by him is he also held in bondage.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but again entangled and worsted thereby, the last for them is become worse than the first. (2 Peter 2:14,18‑20)

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Jude 23• ²³others save, pulling them out of [the] fire; and others pity with fear, 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 by one another.
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
²⁶Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:15,21,26)

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Phil. 2:3• ³nothing in strifefulness, or vainglory, but in lowly-mindedness esteeming one another more excellent than themselves: (Phil. 2:3)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal.
¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:5• ⁵Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy? (James 4:5)

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1 Peter 2:1‑2• ¹Putting away therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil-speakings,
²as new-born babes long for the guileless intelligent milk that by it ye may grow unto 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;