1 Peter 5:8 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 5:8

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Basil of Caesarea

ON RENUNCIATION OF THE WORLD 2 (379)

That the devil wanders over all the earth under heaven and ranges about like a mad dog, seeking whom he may devour, we learn from the story of Job.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Be sober, be vigilant,.... The apostle had exhorted to each of these before; see 1Pe 1:13 but thought fit to repeat them; sobriety and watchfulness being exceeding necessary and useful in the Christian life; and the one cannot well be without the other: unless a man is sober in body and mind, he will not be watchful, either over himself or others, or against the snares of sin, Satan, and the world; and if he is not on his watch and guard, he is liable to every sin and temptation.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

But in the mean time watch. There is a close connection between this, and the duly casting our care upon him. How deeply had St. Peter himself suffered for want of watching!

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Be sober - Avoid drunkenness of your senses, and drunkenness in your souls; be not overcharged with the concerns of the world. Be vigilant - Awake, and keep awake; be always watchful; never be off your guard; your enemies are alert, they are never off theirs. Your adversary the devil - This is the reason why ye should be sober and vigilant; ye have an ever active, implacable, subtle enemy to contend with.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 419: “The Roaring Lion” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1861)

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
νήψατε,	nēpsate	do be sober-minded,	G3525 →
γρηγορήσατε	grēgorēsate	do watch	G1127 →
ὁ	ho	The	G3588 →
ἀντίδικος	antidikos	adversary	G476 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of You	G4771 →
διάβολος	diabolos	[the] devil	G1228 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
λέων	leōn	a lion	G3023 →
ὠρυόμενος	ōruomenos	roaring	G5612 →
περιπατεῖ	peripatei	he prowls about	G4043 →
ζητῶν	zētōn	seeking	G2212 →
τινα	tina	whom	G5100 →
καταπιεῖν·	katapiein	to devour;	G2666 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G3525nepsatedo be sober-minded,6×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 4:7
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
leads to
- 1 Peter 5:8–9
  Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
- Ephesians 4:27
  and do not give the devil a foothold.
- Ephesians 6:11–12
  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- 1 Peter 5:6
  Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
Through
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:4
  The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- Romans 13:12
  The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
- Ephesians 6:13
  Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:8
  But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

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The Armor of God

Roman legionary equipment surveyed by Paul as Christian discipline (Eph 6:10–18). Six pieces of armor and a seventh element — prayer — that is posture, not armor. Every piece carries an OT echo.

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