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 whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Jas 4:7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Eph 4:27Neither give place to the devil.
• Job 2:2And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
• 1 Pet 1:13Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 1 Jn 3:8–10He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• 1 Th 5:6–8Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
• Luke 21:36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Luke 22:31And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
• Rom 13:11–13And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
• Titus 2:12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
• John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• Rev 12:12Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
• Matt 13:39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
• Matt 24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
• Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Rev 20:10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Job 1:6–7Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
• Zech 3:1And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
• Titus 1:8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
• 2 Tim 4:17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Isa 14:12–13How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
• Amos 3:8The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
• Titus 2:6Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
• Titus 2:2That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
• Isa 50:8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
• 1 Tim 2:15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
• Rev 20:2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
• Prov 20:2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
• Ps 104:21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
• Hos 11:10They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
• Isa 5:29–30Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
• Titus 2:4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Matt 4:1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
• 1 Tim 3:11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• Joel 3:16The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
• Matt 25:41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• 1 Tim 2:9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

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