Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,'

But if that servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed in coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

"But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

Your

And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.

And the LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you,that he might sift you like wheat,

As

Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.

The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.

A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and none can rescue.

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.

They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;

The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

And he said: "The LORD roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers."

Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?

The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!"

Walketh

The LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

And the LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

Devour

The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.

And the king commanded, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions--they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.

I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.

General references

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

and they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs; let us enter them."

Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.

so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

and give no opportunity to the devil.