Besober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: GOD'S WORD® Translation. Keep your mind clear, and be alert. Your opponent the 1Peter 5:8. ESV Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. NIV Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. NASB Be of 1Peter 5 serves as a potent reminder that humility, faithfulness, vigilance, and perseverance are central to our spiritual journey. Despite adversities and the prowling enemy, we must 1Peter 5:8-9. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour : 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 2Peter 1:5-8. 5 So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, 6 alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, 7 warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. 1Peter 5:8-9. 8 Control yourselves and be careful! The devil, your enemy, goes around like a roaring lion looking for someone to eat. 9 Refuse to give in to him, by standing strong in your faith. You know that your Christian family all over the world is having the same kinds of suffering. Read Chapter Compare. 1Peter 5:8 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95) 8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 1Peter 5:8 Meaning and Commentary. 1 Peter 5:8. Be sober, be vigilant. The apostle had exhorted to each of these before; see ( 1 Peter 1:13 ) ( 4:7 ) 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 2Peter 1:5-8. 2 Peter 1:5. The Golden Series. I. It is no one grace which makes a Christian. A man may have great knowledge, but if he wants charity, it profits nothing, or if he be a man of courage, but without godliness, he is an hero, but he is not a saint. II. 1Thessalonians 5:6-8 So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.1 Timothy 2:9, 15 Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,1 Timothy 3:2, 11 kjOEi.