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 armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Jas 4:7Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Eph 4:27and don’t give place to the devil.
• Job 2:2Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• 1 Jn 3:8–10He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• 1 Th 5:6–8so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
• Luke 21:36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• Luke 22:31The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
• Rom 13:11–13Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• Titus 2:12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• Rev 12:12Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”
• Matt 13:39The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
• Rev 12:9The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Matt 24:42Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Rev 20:10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Job 1:6–7Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.
• Zech 3:1He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
• Titus 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Isa 14:12–13How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
• Amos 3:8The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
• Titus 2:6Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
• Titus 2:2that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
• Isa 50:8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
• 1 Tim 2:15but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
• Rev 20:2He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
• Prov 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
• Ps 104:21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
• Hos 11:10They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
• Isa 5:29–30Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
• Titus 2:4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Matt 4:1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• 1 Tim 3:11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• Joel 3:16Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
• Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• 1 Tim 2:9In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

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