Romans 13:11-12

New Century Version

¹¹ Do this because we live in an important time. It is now time for you to wake up from your sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹² The “night”^[a] is almost finished, and the “day”^[b] is almost here. So we should stop doing things that belong to darkness and take up the weapons used for fighting in the light.