<p>13:13 <em>Let us behave decently- </em>Gk. 'honestly'. The context has spoken of paying taxes and not behaving as criminals.</p><p><em>As in the day</em>- The &quot;day&quot; spoken of in the context is that of the Lord's coming and His Kingdom. We are to live the kind of life we shall eternally live in God's Kingdom. In this sense we have the eternal life.</p><p><em>Not in revelling and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in strife and jealousy- </em>We will not spend eternity doing these things, so we should not be doing them now. Again we sense that all these things were going on in the church at Rome, and yet Paul still speaks so lovingly and positively of them all. The very same set of issues were clearly evident in the church at Corinth. Again see on :2 the picture of the early converts is not very pleasant. All the more commendable therefore are those faithful ones who lived out their spiritual lives within such churches; and the Lord's letters in Revelation make just that point. But we note they were never exhorted to quit fellowship or association with the weak mass of Christian believers.</p>