Romans 13:11-14

11–14. The exhortations to the detailed development of the Christian character are enforced by the reminder that the times are critical, and demand effort; that the full ‘day’ of Christ’s coming is near: and the contrast between the life of the natural man and of the regenerate is drawn in a few bold lines. The whole is summed up in the description of the Christian aim, as a repeated effort to ‘put on the Lord Jesus Christ,’ and a complete abandonment of the satisfaction of the lusts of the flesh; a return to the thought of Romans 12:1-2.