1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like…”

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

World English Bible

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

American Standard Version

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Geneva Bible 1599

Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:

Darby Translation

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary [the] devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

Young's Literal Translation

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Bible in Basic English

Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

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Cross references

“sober”

1 Peter 1:13 1 Peter 4:7 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8 Luke 21:36 Romans 13:11–13 Titus 2:12

1 Peter 1:13 · BSB

Therefore 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 Peter 4:7 · BSB

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

1 Thessalonians 5:6–8 · BSB

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

Luke 21:36 · BSB

So 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.”

Romans 13:11–13 · BSB

And 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 2:12 · BSB

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

“your”

Job 2:2 Luke 22:31 Zechariah 3:1 Isaiah 50:8 Esther 7:6 Psalm 109:6

Job 2:2 · BSB

“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

Luke 22:31 · BSB

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat.

Zechariah 3:1 · BSB

Then 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.

Isaiah 50:8 · BSB

The 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!

Esther 7:6 · BSB

Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.

Psalm 109:6 · BSB

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

“the devil”

Ephesians 6:11 James 4:7 Ephesians 4:27 1 John 3:8–10 John 8:44 Matthew 13:39

Ephesians 6:11 · BSB

Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.

James 4:7 · BSB

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Ephesians 4:27 · BSB

and do not give the devil a foothold.

1 John 3:8–10 · BSB

The 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.

John 8:44 · BSB

You 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 langua…

Matthew 13:39 · BSB

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

“as”

Revelation 12:12 2 Timothy 4:17 Amos 3:8 Psalm 104:21 Proverbs 20:2 Hosea 11:10

Revelation 12:12 · BSB

Therefore 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.”

2 Timothy 4:17 · BSB

But 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.

Amos 3:8 · BSB

The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken— who will not prophesy?

Psalm 104:21 · BSB

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

Proverbs 20:2 · BSB

The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.

Hosea 11:10 · BSB

They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.

“walketh”

Job 1:7

Job 1:7 · BSB

“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

“devour”

Hosea 13:8 Daniel 6:24 Ezekiel 22:25

Hosea 13:8 · BSB

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.

Daniel 6:24 · BSB

At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered…

Ezekiel 22:25 · BSB

The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.

Also

Matthew 24:42

Matthew 24:42 · BSB

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

9Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

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