Verse 8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Referenced Verses
- Eph 6:11 : 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- Jas 4:7 : 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
- 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
- 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. 8 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
- Job 2:2 : 2 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
- Eph 4:27 : 27 neither give place to the devil.
- Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
- Luke 21:36 : 36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
- Luke 22:31 : 31 The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
- John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
- 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- Rev 20:10 : 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
- Rev 12:12 : 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
- Rom 13:11-13 : 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
- Zech 3:1 : 1 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
- Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
- Joel 3:16 : 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
- Matt 13:39 : 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
- Luke 21:34 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
- Rev 20:2 : 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
- Titus 2:6 : 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
- Titus 2:12 : 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
- Judg 14:5 : 5 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.
- Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
- Ps 109:6 : 6 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
- Isa 5:29-30 : 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
- Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
- Matt 4:11 : 11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.
- 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
- 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
- Zech 11:3 : 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
- Matt 4:1 : 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
- Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- Luke 12:45-46 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
- Isa 14:12-13 : 12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! 13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
- Isa 50:8 : 8 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
- Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
- Jer 51:38 : 38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.
- Ezek 19:7 : 7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
- Ezek 22:25 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.
- Dan 6:24 : 24 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 had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
- Hos 11:10 : 10 They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
- Hos 13:8 : 8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
- Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Prov 20:2 : 2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
- Esth 7:6 : 6 Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
- Job 1:6-7 : 6 Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them. 7 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
- Amos 1:2 : 2 He said: "Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither."
- Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
- 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
- Titus 1:8 : 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
- Titus 2:2 : 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
- Titus 2:4 : 4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
- Matt 24:48-50 : 48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,' 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
- 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;