Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
Be serious!
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:
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;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom 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
Interlinear
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
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casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 6:11
Put on
James 4:7
Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
Job 2:2
The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”
“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore, with your minds ready for action,
Revelation 12:9
So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent,
Luke 22:31
John 8:44
Ephesians 4:27
and don’t give the Devil an opportunity.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the proclamation might be fully made through me and all the Gentiles might hear. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.
1 John 3:8-10
The one who commits
Job 1:6-7
One day the sons of God
Psalm 109:6
let an accuser
Isaiah 5:29-30
they roar like young lions;
they growl and seize their prey
and carry it off,
and no one can rescue it.
Joel 3:16
and raise His voice from Jerusalem;
heaven and earth will shake.
But the Lord will be a refuge for His people,
a stronghold for the Israelites.
Amos 3:8
who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken;
who will not prophesy?
Zechariah 3:1
Then he showed me Joshua
Luke 21:36
Romans 13:11-13
Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.
Revelation 12:12
and you who dwell in them!
Woe to the earth and the sea,
for the Devil has come down to you
with great fury,
because he knows he has a short time.
Revelation 20:10
The Devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet are,
Judges 14:5
Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
Esther 7:6
Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy
Haman stood terrified
Psalm 104:21
and seek their food from God.
Proverbs 19:12
but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Proverbs 20:2
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.
Isaiah 14:12-13
how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
Isaiah 50:8
who will contend with Me?
Let us confront each other.
Who has a case against Me?
Let him come near Me!
Jeremiah 2:15
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
Jeremiah 51:38
they will growl like lion cubs.
Ezekiel 19:7
and destroyed their cities.
The land and everything in it shuddered
at the sound of his roaring.
Ezekiel 22:25
The conspiracy of her prophets
Daniel 6:24
The king then gave the command, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel
Hosea 11:10
He will roar like a lion.
When He roars,
His children will come trembling from the west.
Hosea 13:8
like a bear robbed of her cubs
and tear open the rib cage over their hearts.
I will devour them there like a lioness,
like a wild beast that would rip them open.
Amos 1:2
He said:
and raises His voice from Jerusalem;
the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
and the summit of Carmel
Amos 3:4
when it has no prey?
Does a young lion growl from its lair
unless it has captured something?
Zechariah 11:3
for their glory is destroyed.
Listen to the roar of young lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan
Matthew 4:1
Then
Matthew 4:11
Then the Devil left Him, and immediately angels came and began to serve Him.
Matthew 13:39
Matthew 24:42
Matthew 24:48-50
Matthew 25:41
Luke 12:45-46
Luke 21:34
1 Timothy 2:9
Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing,
1 Timothy 2:15
But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues
1 Timothy 3:2
An overseer,
1 Timothy 3:11
Wives,
Titus 1:8
but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, self-controlled,
Titus 2:2
Older men
Titus 2:4
so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,
Titus 2:6
In the same way, encourage the young men
Titus 2:12
instructing us to deny godlessness
1 Peter 4:7
Now the end of all things is near;
Revelation 20:2
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the Devil and Satan,