But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.

Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing, with decency and good sense, not with elaborate hairstyles, gold, pearls, or expensive apparel,

An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, self-controlled,

Older men are to be level headed, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance.

Your

Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.”

Haman stood terrified before the king and queen.

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them.

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

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

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, with Satan

standing at his right side to accuse him.

“Simon, Simon, look out! Satan has asked to sift you like wheat.

As

Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,

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

A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.

A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.

Their roaring is like a lion’s;
they roar like young lions;
they growl and seize their prey
and carry it off,
and no one can rescue it.

Shining morning star,

how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.

The young lions have roared at him;
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.

They will roar together like young lions;
they will growl like lion cubs.

He devastated their strongholds
and destroyed their cities.
The land and everything in it shuddered
at the sound of his roaring.

They will follow the Lord;
He will roar like a lion.
When He roars,
His children will come trembling from the west.

The Lord will roar from Zion
and raise His voice from Jerusalem;
heaven and earth will shake.
But the Lord will be a refuge for His people,
a stronghold for the Israelites.

He said:

The Lord roars from Zion
and raises His voice from Jerusalem;
the pastures of the shepherds mourn,

and the summit of Carmel withers.

Does a lion roar in the forest
when it has no prey?
Does a young lion growl from its lair
unless it has captured something?

Listen to the wail of the shepherds,
for their glory is destroyed.
Listen to the roar of young lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the proclamation might be fully made through me and all the Gentiles might hear. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.

Therefore rejoice, you heavens,
and you who dwell in them!
Woe to the earth and the sea,
for the Devil has come down to you
with great fury,
because he knows he has a short time.

Walketh

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

Devour

The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.

The king then gave the command, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel

were brought and thrown into the lions’ den—they, their children, and their wives. They had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

I will attack them
like a bear robbed of her cubs
and tear open the rib cage over their hearts.
I will devour them there like a lioness,
like a wild beast that would rip them open.

General references

“Therefore be alert, because you don’t know either the day or the hour.

The demons begged Him, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.”

Watch! Be alert! For you don’t know when the time is coming.

I have done this so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.

and don’t give the Devil an opportunity.