11 translations · Greek
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
1 Peter 5:8 in 11 translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV King James Version
- Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the Devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may swallow up,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Be responsible, and stay alert. The devil, your enemy, is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary [the] devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Νήψατε | Nēpsate | Be sober-minded | G3525 νήφω be sober |
| γρηγορήσατε | grēgorēsate | [and] alert | G1127 γρηγορέω to keep watch |
| ὁ | ho | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀντίδικος | antidikos | adversary | G476 ἀντίδικος opponent |
| ὑμῶν | hymōn | Your | G4771 σύ you |
| διάβολος | diabolos | devil | G1228 διάβολος devilish/the Devil |
| ὡς | hōs | like | G5613 ὡς as/when |
| λέων | leōn | lion | G3023 λέων lion |
| ὠρυόμενος | ōryomenos | a roaring | G5612 ὠρύομαι to roar |
| περιπατεῖ | peripatei | prowls around | G4043 περιπατέω to walk |
| ζητῶν | zētōn | seeking | G2212 ζητέω to seek |
| τινα | tina | [someone] | G5101 τίς which? |
| καταπιεῖν | katapiein | to devour | G2666 καταπίνω to swallow |
Related verses
- Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Ephesians 4:27
and don’t give place to the devil.
- Job 2:2
Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
- 1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
- 1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- 1 John 3:8–10
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8
so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
- Luke 21:36
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- Luke 22:31
The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
Read all of 1 Peter 5 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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