Therefore 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;

But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober minded, and watch unto prayer.

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming;

But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk;

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with carousing, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with decency and propriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;

That the aged men be sensible, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

Your

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid 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 came also among them.

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

Set you a wicked man over him: and let an accuser stand at his right hand.

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

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

As

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

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

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

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

Their 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 safely, and none shall deliver it.

How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations!

The young lions roared upon him, and growled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

They shall roar together like lions: they shall growl as lions' whelps.

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall come trembling from the west.

The 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.

And 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.

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

There is a sound of the wailing of the shepherds; for their glory is in ruins: a sound of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of the Jordan is in ruins.

However 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.

Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil has come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.

Walketh

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

Devour

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

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

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the fat of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

General references

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man comes.

And all the demons begged him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Neither give place to the devil.