1 Peter 5:8

Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Cross References (50)

  • Ephesians 6:11 (186)

    Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.

  • James 4:7 (178)

    Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

  • Ephesians 4:27 (125)

    and do not give the devil a foothold.

  • Job 2:2 (118)

    “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and

  • 1 Peter 1:13 (96)

    Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revela

  • 1 Peter 4:7 (82)

    The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

  • 1 John 3:8–10 (73)

    The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son o

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8 (71)

    So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

  • Luke 21:36 (64)

    So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand b

  • Luke 22:31 (62)

    Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat.

  • Romans 13:11–13 (45)

    And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is ne

  • Titus 2:12 (40)

    It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the pres

  • John 8:44 (38)

    You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refus

  • Revelation 12:12 (38)

    Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has

  • Matthew 13:39 (37)

    and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

  • Revelation 12:9 (33)

    And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. H

  • Revelation 20:10 (30)

    And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prop

  • Matthew 24:42 (30)

    Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

  • Job 1:6–7 (29)

    One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

  • Zechariah 3:1 (29)

    Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right

  • Luke 21:34 (29)

    But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that

  • Titus 1:8 (27)

    Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

  • 2 Timothy 4:17 (25)

    But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gent

  • Isaiah 14:12–13 (23)

    How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of natio

  • Amos 3:8 (23)

    The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?

  • Titus 2:6 (22)

    In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

  • Titus 2:2 (19)

    Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.

  • Isaiah 50:8 (19)

    The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against

  • Proverbs 20:2 (17)

    The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.

  • Hosea 11:10 (17)

    They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.

  • 1 Timothy 2:15 (17)

    Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

  • Revelation 20:2 (17)

    He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

  • Psalms 104:21 (17)

    The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

  • Isaiah 5:29–30 (16)

    Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, a

  • Titus 2:4 (15)

    In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

  • 1 Timothy 3:11 (15)

    In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

  • Matthew 4:1 (15)

    Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

  • Joel 3:16 (15)

    The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a r

  • Hosea 13:8 (12)

    Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a li

  • Matthew 25:41 (12)

    Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil

  • 1 Timothy 2:9 (12)

    Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with b

  • 1 Timothy 3:2 (11)

    An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospita

  • Esther 7:6 (10)

    Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.

  • Matthew 24:48–50 (10)

    But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’

  • Luke 12:45–46 (10)

    But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menserv

  • Matthew 4:11 (10)

    Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.

  • Daniel 6:24 (10)

    At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they an

  • Proverbs 19:12 (9)

    A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

  • Ezekiel 22:25 (9)

    The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the tr

  • Amos 3:4 (9)

    Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?