1 Peter 5:8 Parallel Translations

Keep your mind clear, and be alert. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion as he looks for someone to devour.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

ASV:

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

BBE:

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

DBY:

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

ERV:

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

WEY:

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.

WBS:

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

WEB:

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

YLT:

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

1 Peter 5:8 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 24:42 "Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion's mouth.

James 4:7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:8 {11} Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
(11) The cruelty of Satan, who seeks by all means to devour us, is overcome by watchfulness and faith.

PNT:

5:8 Be sober. Sobriety is necessary to vigilance.
Be vigilant. Wide awake and watchful. The reason follows. An enemy is ready to spring upon them.
The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. He goeth about as the lion, seeking for prey. The lion while hunting only roars when it springs. So the devil is stealthy and does not give warning of his approach.

WES:

5:8 But in the mean time watch. There is a close connexion between this, and the duly casting our care upon him. How deeply had St. Peter himself suffered for want of watching! Be vigilant - As if he had said, Awake, and keep awake. Sleep no more: be this your care. As a roaring lion - Full of rage. Seeking - With all subtilty likewise. Whom he may devour or swallow up - Both soul and body.

MHC:

5:5-9 Humility preserves peace and order in all Christian churches and societies; pride disturbs them. Where God gives grace to be humble, he will give wisdom, faith, and holiness. To be humble, and subject to our reconciled God, will bring greater comfort to the soul than the gratification of pride and ambition. But it is to be in due time; not in thy fancied time, but God's own wisely appointed time. Does he wait, and wilt not thou? What difficulties will not the firm belief of his wisdom, power, and goodness get over! Then be humble under his hand. Cast all you care; personal cares, family cares, cares for the present, and cares for the future, for yourselves, for others, for the church, on God. These are burdensome, and often very sinful, when they arise from unbelief and distrust, when they torture and distract the mind, unfit us for duties, and hinder our delight in the service of God. The remedy is, to cast our care upon God, and leave every event to his wise and gracious disposal. Firm belief that the Divine will and counsels are right, calms the spirit of a man. Truly the godly too often forget this, and fret themselves to no purpose. Refer all to God's disposal. The golden mines of all spiritual comfort and good are wholly his, and the Spirit itself. Then, will he not furnish what is fit for us, if we humbly attend on him, and lay the care of providing for us, upon his wisdom and love? The whole design of Satan is to devour and destroy souls. He always is contriving whom he may insnare to eternal ruin. Our duty plainly is, to be sober; to govern both the outward and the inward man by the rules of temperance. To be vigilant; suspicious of constant danger from this spiritual enemy, watchful and diligent to prevent his designs. Be stedfast, or solid, by faith. A man cannot fight upon a quagmire, there is no standing without firm ground to tread upon; this faith alone furnishes. It lifts the soul to the firm advanced ground of the promises, and fixes it there. The consideration of what others suffer, is proper to encourage us to bear our share in any affliction; and in whatever form Satan assaults us, or by whatever means, we may know that our brethren experience the same.

CONC:

Accuser Adversary Alert Curb Devil Devour Enemy Evil Goes Lion Mouth Open Opponent Passion Prowls Roaring Search Seeking Self-controlled Serious Sober Someone Spirit Swallow Vigilant Walk Walketh Walks Watch Watchful

Accuser Adversary Alert Curb Devil Devour Enemy Evil Food Goes Great Lion Mouth Open Passion Prowls Roaring Search Seeking Self-Controlled Serious Sober Spirit Vigilant Walketh Walks Watch Watchful

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