Cast Your Cares on Him
1 Peter 5:8
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
- KJV
- Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- WEB
- Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- ASV
- Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- LSV
- Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the Devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may swallow up,
- YLT
- Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
- DBY
- Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary [the] devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.
- DRC
- Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.
- GNV
- Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010) read τινα (“whom”); Tyndale House, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τίνα (“whom”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read καταπιεῖν (“to devour”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read καταπίῃ (“he may devour”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus include ὅτι (“that”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)
A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.
- SBLGNT: τινα. Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τινα; Robinson–Pierpont read τίνα; Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles omit this wording.
- SBLGNT: καταπιεῖν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read καταπιεῖν; Robinson–Pierpont read καταπίῃ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- νήψατε, γρηγορήσατε. ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος περιπατεῖ ζητῶν τινα καταπιεῖν·
- RP2018
- Νήψατε, γρηγορήσατε· ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος, ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος, περιπατεῖ ζητῶν τίνα καταπίῃ·
- TR-Boyd
- Νήψατε, γρηγορήσατε· ὅτι ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος, ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος, περιπατεῖ ζητῶν τίνα καταπίῃ·
- SCR1894
- νηψατε γρηγορησατε οτι ο αντιδικος υμων διαβολος ως λεων ωρυομενος περιπατει ζητων τινα καταπιη
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
LionSatanAdversarySobrietyWatchfulnessTemptationTitles and Names of the DevilLion, TheEarth, ThePersecution
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Cross-references most cited first
- Ephesians 6:11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- James 4:7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Ephesians 4:27and do not give the devil a foothold.
- Job 2:2“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- 1 Peter 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
- 1 John 3:8–10The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin,…
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting…
- Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- Luke 22:31Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
- Romans 13:11–13And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us…
- Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
- John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native…
- Revelation 12:12Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”
- Matthew 13:39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
- Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
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