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1 Peter 5

1 Peter 5:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Be sober
nepho (Greek #3525)
of uncertain affinity: to abstain from wine (keep sober), i.e. (figuratively) be discreet
KJV usage: be sober, watch.
Pronounce: nay'-fo
, be vigilant
gregoreuo (Greek #1127)
to keep awake, i.e. watch (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: be vigilant, wake, (be) watch(-ful).
Pronounce: gray-gor-yoo'-o
Origin: from 1453
; because
hoti (Greek #3754)
demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
KJV usage: as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), (in) that, though, why.
Pronounce: hot'-ee
Origin: neuter of 3748 as conjunction
your
humon (Greek #5216)
of (from or concerning) you
KJV usage: ye, you, your (own, -selves).
Pronounce: hoo-mone'
Origin: genitive case of 5210
adversary
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
antidikos (Greek #476)
an opponent (in a lawsuit); specially, Satan (as the arch-enemy)
KJV usage: adversary.
Pronounce: an-tid'-ee-kos
Origin: from 473 and 1349
the devil
diabolos (Greek #1228)
a traducer; specially, Satan (compare 07854)
KJV usage: false accuser, devil, slanderer.
Pronounce: dee-ab'-ol-os
Origin: from 1225
, as
hos (Greek #5613)
which how, i.e. in that manner (very variously used, as follows)
KJV usage: about, after (that), (according) as (it had been, it were), as soon (as), even as (like), for, how (greatly), like (as, unto), since, so (that), that, to wit, unto, when(-soever), while, X with all speed.
Pronounce: hoce
Origin: probably adverb of comparative from 3739
y a roaring
oruomai (Greek #5612)
to "roar"
KJV usage: roar.
Pronounce: o-roo'-om-ahee
Origin: middle voice of an apparently primary verb
lion
leon (Greek #3023)
a "lion"
KJV usage: lion.
Pronounce: leh-ohn'
Origin: a primary word
, walketh about
peripateo (Greek #4043)
to tread all around, i.e. walk at large (especially as proof of ability); figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow (as a companion or votary)
KJV usage: go, be occupied with, walk (about).
Pronounce: per-ee-pat-eh'-o
Origin: from 4012 and 3961
, seeking
zeteo (Greek #2212)
to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
KJV usage: be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means). Compare 4441.
Pronounce: dzay-teh'-o
Origin: of uncertain affinity
whom
tis (Greek #5101)
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
KJV usage: every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.
Pronounce: tis
Origin: probably emphatic of 5100
he may devour
katapino (Greek #2666)
to drink down, i.e. gulp entire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: devour, drown, swallow (up).
Pronounce: kat-ap-ee'-no
Origin: from 2596 and 4095
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Rev. 12:12• 12Therefore be full of delight, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great rage, knowing he has a short time. (Rev. 12:12)

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Lion,
The Adversary,
The Devil

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Ministry on This Verse

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sober.
1 Peter 1:13• 13Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, be sober and hope with perfect stedfastness in the grace which will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (1 Peter 1:13)
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1 Peter 4:7• 7But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers; (1 Peter 4:7)
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Matt. 24:48‑50• 48But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,
 49and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;
 50the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, (Matt. 24:48‑50)
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Luke 12:45‑46• 45But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,
 46the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers. (Luke 12:45‑46)
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Luke 21:34,36• 34But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;
 36Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Luke 21:34,36)
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Rom. 13:11‑13• 11This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
 12The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
 13As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation. (Rom. 13:11‑13)
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1 Thess. 5:6‑8• 6So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;
 7for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;
 8but *we* being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation; (1 Thess. 5:6‑8)
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1 Tim. 2:9,15• 9In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,
 15But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion. (1 Tim. 2:9,15)
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1 Tim. 3:2,11• 2The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
 11The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:2,11)
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Titus 1:8• 8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate, (Titus 1:8)
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Titus 2:2,4,6,12• 2that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
 4that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,
 6The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:
 12teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things, (Titus 2:2,4,6,12)
your.
Esther 7:6• 6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. (Esther 7:6)
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Job 1:6• 6And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah; and Satan came also among them. (Job 1:6)
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Job 2:2• 2And Jehovah said to Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (Job 2:2)
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Psa. 109:6• 6Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand; (Psa. 109:6)
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Psa. 109•  (Psa. 109)
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Isa. 50:8• 8He is near that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is mine adverse party? let him draw near unto me. (Isa. 50:8)
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Zech. 3:1• 1And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. (Zech. 3:1)
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Luke 22:31• 31And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift you as wheat; (Luke 22:31)
the devil.
Matt. 4:1,11• 1Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:
 11Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him. (Matt. 4:1,11)
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Matt. 13:39• 39and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is the completion of the age, and the harvestmen are angels. (Matt. 13:39)
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Matt. 25:41• 41Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: (Matt. 25:41)
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John 8:44• 44Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father: (John 8:44)
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Eph. 4:27• 27neither give room for the devil. (Eph. 4:27)
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Eph. 6:11• 11Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil: (Eph. 6:11)
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James 4:7• 7Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)
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1 John 3:8‑10• 8He that practises sin is of the devil; for from the beginning the devil sins. To this end the Son of God has been manifested, that he might undo the works of the devil.
 9Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.
 10In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother. (1 John 3:8‑10)
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Rev. 12:9• 9And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Rev. 12:9)
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Rev. 20:2,10• 2And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
 10And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are both the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages of ages. (Rev. 20:2,10)
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Judg. 14:5• 5And Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnathah; and they came to the vineyards of Timnathah. And behold, a young lion roared against him; (Judg. 14:5)
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Psa. 104:21• 21The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from *God. (Psa. 104:21)
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Prov. 19:12• 12The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. (Prov. 19:12)
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Prov. 20:2• 2The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. (Prov. 20:2)
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Isa. 5:29‑30• 29Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away safe, and there is none to deliver;
 30and they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if one look upon the earth, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. (Isa. 5:29‑30)
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Isa. 14:12‑13• 12How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!
 13And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of *God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north; (Isa. 14:12‑13)
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Jer. 2:15• 15The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant. (Jer. 2:15)
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Jer. 51:38• 38They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps. (Jer. 51:38)
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Ezek. 19:7• 7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring. (Ezek. 19:7)
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Hos. 11:10• 10They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west: (Hos. 11:10)
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Joel 3:16• 16And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel. (Joel 3:16)
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Amos 1:2• 2And he said, Jehovah roareth from Zion, and uttereth his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withereth. (Amos 1:2)
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Amos 3:4,8• 4Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing?
 8The lion hath roared,--who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken,--who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:4,8)
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Zech. 11:3• 3A voice of howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. (Zech. 11:3)
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2 Tim. 4:17• 17But the Lord stood with me, and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all those of the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth. (2 Tim. 4:17)
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Rev. 12:12• 12Therefore be full of delight, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great rage, knowing he has a short time. (Rev. 12:12)
walketh.
Job 1:7• 7And Jehovah said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (Job 1:7)
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Job 2:2• 2And Jehovah said to Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (Job 2:2)
devour.
Ezek. 22:25• 25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they devour souls; they take away treasure and precious things; they increase her widows in the midst of her; (Ezek. 22:25)
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Dan. 6:24• 24And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces ere they came to the bottom of the den. (Dan. 6:24)
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Hos. 13:8• 8I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them. (Hos. 13:8)
• Here it is as a roaring lion Satan comes, hence these Hebrew believers were going through persecution. In the 2nd Epistle he comes as a snake in the grass, introducing moral corruption. (“Exhortations” by W.T.P. Wolston)
• We can passingly notice what more affects leaders, the fault and the snare of the devil endangering an overseer, as in 1 Timothy 3:6-7; and the possible recovery from his snare, as in the Second Epistle (2 Tim. 2:22,26), for adversaries that repent. In Heb. 2:14-15, he is the one that has the might of death annulled through the Savior's death; and in the Revelation he is shown fully both as to the church and in the world to his utter ruin. (“1 Peter 5:8-11” by W. Kelly)
• It is in the character of a roaring lion, one who excites open persecution, that the Apostle presents him. (“1 Peter 5” by J.N. Darby)
• If faith be a mere matter of mental enlightenment, mere head-conviction and not heart-trust, it fails and he devours us. We are therefore to be sober and watchful. (“1 Peter 5” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "be humbled," aorist; also "vigilant," "watch," and "resist" refer to characters to be won. see Note g, ver. 2.

W. Kelly Translation

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Be vigilant, watcha: your adversary [the] devil as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour;

WK Translation Notes

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The best authorities do not support the word "because" of the T. R. followed by the KJV. It clogs the vigor of words clear and ringing as a trumpet call.