[Salvation]

How about this warning from St. Paul to the Romans 13:11-14?

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³ And do this because you know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed;

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the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness (and) put on the armor of light;

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let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, ⁴ not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy.

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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

 

And the footnotes:

 

³ [11-14] These verses provide the motivation for the love that is encouraged in Romans 13:8-10.

⁴ [13] Let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day: the behavior described in Romans 1:29-30 is now to be reversed. Secular moralists were fond of making references to people who could not wait for nightfall to do their carousing. Paul says that Christians claim to be people of the new day that will dawn with the return of Christ. Instead of planning for nighttime behavior they should be concentrating on conduct that is consonant with avowed interest in the Lord's return.

[irishtenor]

Agreed. I covered that under Follow God’s word. If we did that, there would be no problems :>)

[Biggirl]

That reading is going to be the second reading for tommorrow’s Sunday Mass, First Sunday in Advent when the focus is on the Lord’s coming at the end of the age.