1 Peter 5:8

Believers must stay sober and alert, for the devil prowls like a roaring lion seeking to devour. It warns of a real spiritual enemy and calls for vigilance.

Cross-references · 40

• Eph 6:11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
• Jas 4:7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Eph 4:27and do not give the devil a foothold.
• Job 2:2“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• 1 Jn 3:8–10The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
• 1 Th 5:6–8So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
• Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• Luke 22:31Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
• Rom 13:11–13And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
• Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Rev 12:12Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”
• Matt 13:39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Matt 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
• Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
• Rev 20:10And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Job 1:6–7One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
• Zech 3:1Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
• Titus 1:8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
• Isa 14:12–13How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
• Amos 3:8The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?
• Titus 2:6In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
• Titus 2:2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
• Isa 50:8The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!
• 1 Tim 2:15Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
• Rev 20:2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
• Prov 20:2The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
• Ps 104:21The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
• Hos 11:10They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
• Isa 5:29–30Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
• Titus 2:4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
• Matt 4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• 1 Tim 3:11In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
• Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
• Matt 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
• 1 Tim 2:9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

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