Wherefore, 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;

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

But 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,

But 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;

This 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.

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

In 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,

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Your

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah; and Satan came also among them.

And 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.

Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand;

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift you as wheat;

As

Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and he came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion roared against him;

The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God.

The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Their 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;

How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!

The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant.

They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.

And 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.

They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west:

And 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.

And 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.

Will 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?

A 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.

But 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.

Therefore 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.

Walketh

And 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.

And 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.

Devour

There 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;

And 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.

I 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.

General references

Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

and they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine that we may enter into them.

Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the time is:

that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

neither give room for the devil.