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1 Peter 5:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Rev. 12:12• 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. (Rev. 12:12)

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1 Peter 1:13• 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 Peter 1:13)

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1 Peter 4:7• ⁷But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

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Matt. 24:48‑50• ⁴⁸But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
⁴⁹And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
⁵⁰The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, (Matt. 24:48‑50)

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Luke 12:45‑46• ⁴⁵But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
⁴⁶The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. (Luke 12:45‑46)

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Luke 21:34,36• 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.
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 21:34,36)

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Rom. 13:11‑13• ¹¹And 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.
¹²The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (Rom. 13:11‑13)

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1 Thess. 5:6‑8• ⁶Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
⁷For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
⁸But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. (1 Thess. 5:6‑8)

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1 Tim. 2:9,15• 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;
¹⁵Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. (1 Tim. 2:9,15)

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1 Tim. 3:2,11• ²A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
¹¹Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:2,11)

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Titus 1:8• ⁸But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; (Titus 1:8)

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Titus 2:2,4,6,12• ²That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
⁴That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
⁶Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
¹²Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (Titus 2:2,4,6,12)

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Esther 7:6• ⁶And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. (Esther 7:6)

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Job 1:6• ⁶Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. (Job 1:6)

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Job 2:2• 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. (Job 2:2)

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Psa. 109:6• ⁶Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. (Psa. 109:6)

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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 adversary? let him come near to me. (Isa. 50:8)

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Zech. 3:1• ¹And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, 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 hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: (Luke 22:31)

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Matt. 4:1,11• ¹Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
¹¹Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. (Matt. 4:1,11)

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Matt. 13:39• ³⁹The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. (Matt. 13:39)

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Matt. 25:41• 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: (Matt. 25:41)

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John 8:44• 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. (John 8:44)

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Eph. 4:27• ²⁷Neither give place to the devil. (Eph. 4:27)

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Eph. 6:11• ¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Eph. 6:11)

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James 4:7• ⁷Submit 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 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.
⁹Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
¹⁰In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. (1 John 3:8‑10)

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Rev. 12:9• 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. (Rev. 12:9)

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Rev. 20:2,10• ²And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
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. (Rev. 20:2,10)

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Judg. 14:5• ⁵Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. (Judg. 14:5)

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Psa. 104:21• ²¹The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. (Psa. 104:21)

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Prov. 19:12• ¹²The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew upon the grass. (Prov. 19:12)

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Prov. 20:2• ²The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. (Prov. 20:2)

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Isa. 5:29‑30• ²⁹Their 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.
³⁰And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, 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, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
¹³For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: (Isa. 14:12‑13)

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Jer. 2:15• ¹⁵The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. (Jer. 2:15)

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Jer. 51:38• ³⁸They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell 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; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. (Ezek. 19:7)

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Hos. 11:10• ¹⁰They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. (Hos. 11:10)

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Joel 3:16• 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. (Joel 3:16)

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Amos 1:2• ²And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. (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 God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:4,8)

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Zech. 11:3• ³There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. (Zech. 11:3)

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2 Tim. 4:17• 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. (2 Tim. 4:17)

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Rev. 12:12• 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. (Rev. 12:12)

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Job 1:7• ⁷And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, 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 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. (Job 2:2)

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Ezek. 22:25• ²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. (Ezek. 22:25)

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Dan. 6:24• ²⁴And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. (Dan. 6:24)

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Hos. 13:8• ⁸I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast 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.

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

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

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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.