1 Peter 5:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

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  • Eph 6:11 : 11 Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
  • Jas 4:7 : 7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.
  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One. 9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father. 10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. 7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night; 8 But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
  • Job 2:2 : 2 And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
  • Eph 4:27 : 27 And do not give way to the Evil One.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
  • Luke 22:31 : 31 Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.
  • Rev 12:12 : 12 Be glad then, O heavens, and you who are in them. But there is trouble for the earth and the sea: because the Evil One has come down to you, being very angry, having the knowledge that he has but a short time.
  • Rom 13:11-13 : 11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light, 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
  • Zech 3:1 : 1 And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.
  • Matt 24:42 : 42 Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.
  • Joel 3:16 : 16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
  • Matt 13:39 : 39 And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
  • Rev 20:2 : 2 And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 To the young men give orders to be wise and serious-minded:
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
  • Judg 14:5 : 5 Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.
  • Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.
  • Ps 109:6 : 6 Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.
  • Isa 5:29-30 : 29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands. 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?
  • Matt 4:11 : 11 Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.
  • 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 And that women may be dressed in simple clothing, with a quiet and serious air; not with twisted hair and gold or jewels or robes of great price;
  • 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.
  • Matt 4:1 : 1 Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:
  • Luke 12:45-46 : 45 But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine; 46 The lord of that servant will come at a time when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not ready for him, and he will have him cut in two and will give him his part in the fate of those who have no faith;
  • Isa 14:12-13 : 12 How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies! 13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
  • Isa 50:8 : 8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
  • Jer 51:38 : 38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
  • Ezek 19:7 : 7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
  • Ezek 22:25 : 25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
  • Dan 6:24 : 24 Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;
  • Hos 13:8 : 8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.
  • Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.
  • Prov 20:2 : 2 The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.
  • Esth 7:6 : 6 And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.
  • Job 1:6-7 : 6 And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them. 7 And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.
  • Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.
  • Titus 1:8 : 8 But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.
  • Titus 2:4 : 4 Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,
  • Matt 24:48-50 : 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming; 49 And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine; 50 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and in an hour of which he has no knowledge,
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

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    7Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.

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    12Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • 1 Thess 5:6-8
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    6So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

    7For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

    8But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

  • Eph 6:11
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    11Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

  • Jas 4:7
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    7For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

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    7But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

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    29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

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    13I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

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    19As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

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    15Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

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    10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

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    27And do not give way to the Evil One.

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    6And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

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    1The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

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    32The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

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    31Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:

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    4But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

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    15Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

    16Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

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    21The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

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    11Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

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    12Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:

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    36For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

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    7Have no part with such men;

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