Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Holman Bible
Be serious!
International Standard Version
Be clear-minded and alert. Your opponent, the Devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
A Conservative Version
Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.
American Standard Version
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
Amplified
Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.
An Understandable Version
Be sensible and alert; your enemy the devil is prowling around like a roaring [i.e., hungry] lion looking for someone to [kill and] eat.
Anderson New Testament
Be sober, be watchful: for your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.
Bible in Basic English
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
Common New Testament
Be sober, be alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Be temperate, be vigilant: for your adversary the Devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Darby Translation
Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Be sober, be vigilant: your adversary, the devil, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour:
Godbey New Testament
Be sober, watch. The devil is walking round like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour:
Goodspeed New Testament
Be calm and watchful. Your opponent the devil is prowling about like a roaring lion, wanting to devour you.
John Wesley New Testament
for your adversary the devil, walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour:
Julia Smith Translation
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
King James 2000
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
Modern King James verseion
Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;
Moffatt New Testament
Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.
Montgomery New Testament
Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
NET Bible
Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.
New Heart English Bible
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Noyes New Testament
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour;
Sawyer New Testament
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;
The Emphasized Bible
Be sober! be watchful! Your slanderous adversary, as a roaring lion, is walking about - seeking to devour:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, prowleth around, seeking whom he may devour:
Twentieth Century New Testament
Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the Devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you.
Webster
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Weymouth New Testament
Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.
Williams New Testament
Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.
World English Bible
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Worrell New Testament
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, is going about, seeking whom he may devour;
Worsley New Testament
Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary the devil, like a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Youngs Literal Translation
Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
Themes
Activity » Evil » General references to
Adversary » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » Duty of resisting
Adversary » Power of » Preying upon men
Devil/devils » What satan does
Devil/devils » Resisting the devil
the Earth » Satan goes to and fro in
Evil » Activity » General references to
satanic Invasion » Of all who will give him entrance
Lions » Illustrative » Of the devil
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Watchfulness against sin and temptation
Satan » Tempts men vanquished by men » Resistance to
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Preying upon men
Satanic » Invasion » Of all who will give him entrance
Satan's » Work » Preying upon men
Serpent » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » Duty of resisting
Serpent » Power of » Preying upon men
Suffering » Who shall suffer persecution
Temptation » Saints should » Watch against
Tempter » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » Duty of resisting
Tempter » Power of » Preying upon men
The Devil » Character of » Fierce and cruel
The Devil » Compared to » A roaring lion
Titles and names of the devil » Adversary
War » Figurative » Is against » The Devil
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With watchfulness
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With sobriety
Warfare of saints » Is against » The Devil
Warfare of saints » To be carried on » With watchfulness
Warfare of saints » To be carried on » With sobriety
Watchfulness » For the coming of Christ, reasons for » Against sin and temptation
Watchfulness » Motives to » Incessant assaults of the devil
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 Peter 5:8
Devotionals containing 1 Peter 5:8
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 Peter 5:8
Prayers for 1 Peter 5:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instructions For Christians
7 Cast all your care to him: for he careth for you. 8 Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom resist, steadfast in the faith, remembering that ye do but fulfill the same afflictions which are appointed to your brethren that are in the world.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the armour of God, that ye may stand steadfast against the crafty assaults of the devil.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Job 2:2
And the LORD said unto Satan, "From whence comest thou?" Satan answered and said, "I have gone about the land, and walked through it."
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought unto you by the declaring of Jesus Christ;
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon, that old serpent called the devil and Satan; Was cast out. Which deceiveth all the world. And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out also.
Luke 22:31
And the Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired you, to sift you, as it were wheat:
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof.
Ephesians 4:27
neither give place unto the backbiter.
2 Timothy 4:17
notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthed me, that by me the preaching should be fulfilled to the utmost and that all the gentiles should hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
1 John 3:8-10
He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth since the beginning. But for this cause appeared the son of God, even to destroy the works of the devil.
Job 1:6-7
Now upon a time, when the servants of God came and stood before the LORD, Satan came also among them.
Psalm 109:6
Set an ungodly man to be ruler over him, and let Satan stand at his righthand.
Isaiah 5:29-30
Their cry is as it were of a lion, and the roaring of them like lion's whelps. They shall roar, and haunch up the prey, and no man shall recover it or get it from them.
Joel 3:16
The LORD shall roar out of Zion, a cry out of Jerusalem; that the heavens and the earth shall quake withal. But the LORD shall be a defense to his own people, and a refuge for the children of Israel.
Amos 3:8
When a lion roareth, who will not be afraid? Seeing then that the LORDE God himself speaketh, who will not prophesy?
Zechariah 3:1
And he showed me Joshua the high priest, standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan stood at his righthand to resist him.
Luke 21:36
Watch therefore continually and pray, that ye may obtain grace to fly all this that shall come. And that ye may stand before the son of man."
Romans 13:11-13
This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.
Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea: for the devil is come down unto you, which hath great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."
Revelation 20:10
and the devil that deceived them, was cast into a lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet were and shall be tormented day and night for ever more.
Judges 14:5
Then went Samson and his father and his mother down to Timnah. And when they came to the vineyards of Timnah, behold, a young lion roared upon him.
Esther 7:6
Esther said, "The enemy and adversary is this wicked Haman." As for Haman, he was exceedingly afraid before the king and the queen.
Psalm 104:21
The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from God.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 20:2
The king ought to be feared as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him unto anger, offendeth against his own soul.
Isaiah 14:12-13
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, thou fair morning child! How hast thou gotten a fall, even to the ground; thou that didst subdue the people?
Isaiah 50:8
Mine advocate speaketh for me, who will then go with me to law? Let us stand one against another: if there be any that will reason with me, let him come here forth to me.
Jeremiah 2:15
Why do they roar and cry then upon him, as a lion? They have made his land waste, his cities are so burnt up, that there is no man dwelling in them.
Jeremiah 51:38
They shall roar together like lions, and as the young lions when they be angry, so shall they bend themselves.
Ezekiel 19:7
he destroyed their palaces, and made their cities waste. Insomuch that the whole land and every thing therein were utterly desolate through the very voice of his roaring.
Ezekiel 22:25
thy Prophets that are in thee are sworn together to devour souls, like as a roaring Lion that liveth by his prey. They receive riches and good, and make many widows in thee.
Daniel 6:24
And as for those men which had accused Daniel, the king commanded to bring them, and to cast them in the Lions' den: them, their children, and their wives. So the Lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones asunder, before they came at the ground.
Hosea 11:10
The LORD roareth like a lion, that they may follow him. Yea, as a lion roareth he, that they may be afraid like the children of the sea:
Hosea 13:8
I will come upon them as a she bear, that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break that stubborn heart of theirs. There will I devour them as a lion: yea the wild beast shall tear them.
Amos 1:2
And he said, "The LORD shall roar out of Zion, and show his voice from Jerusalem: so that the pastures of the shepherds shall be in a miserable case, and the top of Carmel dried up.
Amos 3:4
Doth a lion roar in the woods, except he have prey? Or crieth a Lion's whelp out of his den, except he have gotten something?
Zechariah 11:3
Men may hear the shepherds mourn, for their glory is destroyed. Men may hear the lion's whelps roar, for the pride of Jordan is wasted away.
Matthew 4:1
Then was Jesus led away of the spirit into wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Matthew 4:11
Then the devil left him, and, Behold, the angels came and ministered unto him.
Matthew 13:39
And the enemy that soweth them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers be the angels.
Matthew 24:42
Wake, therefore, because ye know not what hour your master will come.
Matthew 24:48-50
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, my master will defer his coming,
Matthew 25:41
Then shall the King say unto them that shall be on the left hand, 'Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels.
Luke 12:45-46
But and if the evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My master will defer his coming,' and shall begin to smite the servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken:
Luke 21:34
Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.
1 Timothy 2:9
Likewise also the women, that they array themselves in comely apparel with shamefastness, and discreet behavior, not with broided hair, other gold, or pearls, or costly array:
1 Timothy 2:15
Notwithstanding, through bearing of children they shall be saved, so they continue in faith, love, and holiness with discretion.
1 Timothy 3:2
Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,
1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be honest, not evil speakers: but sober, and faithful in all things.
Titus 1:8
but harborous, one that loveth goodness, sober minded, righteous, holy, temperate,
Titus 2:2
That the elder men be sober, honest, discreet, sound in the faith, in love and in patience.
Titus 2:4
to make the young women soberminded, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus 2:6
Young men likewise exhort that they be sober minded.
Titus 2:12
and teacheth us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and that we should live sober minded, righteously, and godly in this present world,
1 Peter 4:7
The end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore discreet, and sober, that ye may be apt to prayers.
Revelation 20:2
And he took the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and he bound him a thousand years: