1 Peter 5:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

1 Peter 5:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Ephesians 4:27
Neither give place to the devil.
Job 2:2
And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-9)

Here the apostle does three things:— I. He shows them their danger from an enemy more cruel and restless than even the worst of men, whom he describes, 1. By his characters and names. (1.) He is an adversary: “ That adversary of yours; not a common adversary, but an enemy that impleads you, and litigates against you in your grand depending cause, and aims at your very souls.” (2.) The devil, the g…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. Peter has in mind Christ’s warning to himself to watch against Satan, from forgetting which he fell. Be sober ... vigilant--“Care,” that is, anxiety, will intoxicate the soul; therefore be sober, that is, self-restrained. Yet, lest this freedom from care should lead any to false security, he adds, “Be vigilant” against “your adversary.” Let this be your “care.” God provides, therefore do not be…