Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

Because everything will soon come to an end, be sensible and clear-headed, so you can pray.

"But if that wicked servant says to himself, "My master has been delayed,'

But if that servant says to himself, "My master is taking a long time to come back,' and begins to beat the other servants and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise

This is necessary because you know the times it's already time for you to wake up from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we became believers.

Therefore, let's not fall asleep like others do, but let's stay awake and be sober.

Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not with elaborate hairstyles or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes,

Therefore, an elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, stable, sensible, respectable, hospitable to strangers, and teachable.

Instead, he must be hospitable to strangers, must appreciate what is good, and be sensible, honest, moral, and self-controlled.

Older men are to be sober, serious, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance.

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Esther replied, "An adversary and an enemy it's this wicked Haman!" So Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

One day, divine beings presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them.

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan told the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

Appoint an evil person over him; may an accuser stand at his right side.

Then I saw Joshua the High Priest standing in the presence of the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right to oppose him.

"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,

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Then Samson went down in the direction of Timnah with his father and mother and arrived as far as the vineyards of Timnah. And surprise! a young lion came roaring at him!

Young lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion, but his goodwill is like dew on the grass.

A king's anger is like a lion's roar; anyone who angers him forfeits his life.

With a roar like a lion, they snarl, and like young lions, they growl; they seize their prey and then carry it off, with no one to rescue.

"How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation!

Young lions roar at him, they cry out loudly. They have made his land into a wasteland, and his cities are destroyed so they are without inhabitants.

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

He raped the women, devastating their towns. The land was made desolate, and all the while the land was filled with the sound of his roaring.

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

"The LORD will roar from Zion, and shout from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake, but the LORD will be the refuge of his people, and the strength of the people of Israel."

He said, "From Zion the LORD roars, and from Jerusalem he shouts aloud. The shepherds' pastures will languish, and Carmel's summit will wither."

Will a lion roar in the forest without having found its prey? Will a young lion cry from its den without having caught anything?

Hear the wailing of the shepherds, for the magnificence of the forest is ruined! Hear the roar of the lions, for the Jordan's arrogance is ruined!

However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles could hear it. I was rescued out of a lion's mouth.

So be glad, heavens, and those who live in them! How terrible it is for the earth and the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, filled with rage, knowing that his time is short!"

Walketh

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan answered the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan told the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

Devour

There's a conspiracy of prophets within her, and like a roaring lion tearing its prey, they've devoured people, and confiscated treasures, and taken precious things. They've added to the population of widows within her.

Then the king gave orders to bring those men who had tried to have Daniel devoured, and they threw them, their children, and their wives into the lions' pit. They had not reached the floor of the pit before the lions had overtaken them and crushed all their bones.

I will confront them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their ribs. I will devour them like a lion the wild beasts will rip them apart.

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So keep on watching, because you don't know the day or the hour."

So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"

Be careful! Watch out! Because you don't know when the time will come.

so that we may not be outsmarted by Satan. After all, we are not unaware of his intentions.

and do not give the Devil an opportunity to work.