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1 Peter 5:8

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8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

KJV

8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

BSB

8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

FBV

8Be responsible, and stay alert. The devil, your enemy, is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

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Extra References

Ephesians 6:11

11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.


James 4:7

7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


Ephesians 4:27

27and don’t give place[+] to the devil.


Job 2:2

2The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”


1 Peter 1:13

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 Peter 4:7

7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.


1 John 3:8-10

8He 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. 9Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he cant sin, because he is born of God. 10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.


1 Thessalonians 5:6-8

6so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. 7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. 8But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.


Luke 21:36

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 22:31

31The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,