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1 Peter 5:7–8

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Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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From verse 7

  1. Psalms 55:22Rank 1 from verse 7
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    22Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

  2. Philippians 4:6Rank 2 from verse 7
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    6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

  3. Psalms 37:5Rank 3 from verse 7
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    5Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

  4. Psalms 56:3–4Rank 4 from verse 7
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    3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

    4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

  5. Matthew 6:25–26Rank 5 from verse 7
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    25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

    26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

  6. Matthew 6:33–34Rank 6 from verse 7
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    33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

    34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

  7. Hebrews 13:5–6Rank 7 from verse 7
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    5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

    6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

  8. Psalms 34:15Rank 8 from verse 7
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    15The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

  9. Luke 12:22Rank 9 from verse 7
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    22¶ And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

  10. Psalms 27:13–14Rank 10 from verse 7
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    13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

    14Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

  11. 1 Samuel 30:6Rank 11 from verse 7
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    6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

  12. Luke 12:30–32Rank 12 from verse 7
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    30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

    31¶ But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

    32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

  13. Psalms 142:4–5Rank 13 from verse 7
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    4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

    5I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

  14. Luke 12:11–12Rank 14 from verse 7
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    11And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

    12For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

  15. Mark 4:38Rank 15 from verse 7
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    38And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

  16. 1 Samuel 1:10–18Rank 16 from verse 7
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    10And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

    11And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.

    12And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth.

    13Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

    14And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

    15And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

    16Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

    17Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

    18And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

  17. John 10:13Rank 17 from verse 7
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    13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

From verse 8

  1. Ephesians 6:11Rank 1 from verse 8
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    11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

  2. James 4:7Rank 2 from verse 8
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    7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

  3. Ephesians 4:27Rank 3 from verse 8
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    27Neither give place to the devil.

  4. Job 2:2Rank 4 from verse 8
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    2And 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.

  5. 1 Peter 1:13Rank 5 from verse 8
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    13Wherefore 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;

  6. 1 Peter 4:7Rank 6 from verse 8
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    7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

  7. 1 John 3:8–10Rank 7 from verse 8
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    8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

    9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

    10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

  8. 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8Rank 8 from verse 8
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    6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

    7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

    8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

  9. Luke 21:36Rank 9 from verse 8
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    36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

  10. Luke 22:31Rank 10 from verse 8
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    31¶ And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

  11. Romans 13:11–13Rank 11 from verse 8
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    11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

    12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

    13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

  12. Titus 2:12Rank 12 from verse 8
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    12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

  13. John 8:44Rank 13 from verse 8
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    44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  14. Matthew 13:39Rank 14 from verse 8
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    39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

  15. Revelation 12:12Rank 15 from verse 8
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    12Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

  16. Revelation 12:9Rank 16 from verse 8
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    9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

  17. Matthew 24:42Rank 17 from verse 8
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    42¶ Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

  18. Luke 21:34Rank 18 from verse 8
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    34¶ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

  19. Revelation 20:10Rank 19 from verse 8
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    10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

  20. Job 1:6–7Rank 20 from verse 8
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    6¶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

    7And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

  21. Zechariah 3:1Rank 21 from verse 8
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    1AND he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

  22. Titus 1:8Rank 22 from verse 8
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    8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

  23. 2 Timothy 4:17Rank 23 from verse 8
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    17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

  24. Amos 3:8Rank 24 from verse 8
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    8The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

  25. Isaiah 14:12–13Rank 25 from verse 8
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    12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

    13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

  26. Titus 2:6Rank 26 from verse 8
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    6Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

  27. Isaiah 50:8Rank 27 from verse 8
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    8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

  28. Titus 2:2Rank 28 from verse 8
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    2That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

  29. 1 Timothy 2:15Rank 29 from verse 8
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    15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

  30. Hosea 11:10Rank 30 from verse 8
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    10They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

  31. Proverbs 20:2Rank 31 from verse 8
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    2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

  32. Psalms 104:21Rank 32 from verse 8
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    21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

  33. Revelation 20:2Rank 33 from verse 8
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    2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

  34. Isaiah 5:29–30Rank 34 from verse 8
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    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

  35. 1 Timothy 3:11Rank 35 from verse 8
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    11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

  36. Joel 3:16Rank 36 from verse 8
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    16The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

  37. Titus 2:4Rank 37 from verse 8
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    4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

  38. Matthew 4:1Rank 38 from verse 8
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    1THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

  39. 1 Timothy 2:9Rank 39 from verse 8
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    9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

  40. Hosea 13:8Rank 40 from verse 8
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    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

  41. Matthew 25:41Rank 41 from verse 8
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    41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

  42. 1 Timothy 3:2Rank 42 from verse 8
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    2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  43. Daniel 6:24Rank 43 from verse 8
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    24¶ And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

  44. Esther 7:6Rank 44 from verse 8
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    6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

  45. Luke 12:45–46Rank 45 from verse 8
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    45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

    46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

  46. Matthew 24:48–50Rank 46 from verse 8
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    48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

    49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

    50The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

  47. Matthew 4:11Rank 47 from verse 8
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    11Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

  48. Amos 3:4Rank 48 from verse 8
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    4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

  49. Ezekiel 22:25Rank 49 from verse 8
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    25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

  50. Proverbs 19:12Rank 50 from verse 8
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    12The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

  51. Judges 14:5Rank 51 from verse 8
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    5¶ Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

  52. Ezekiel 19:7Rank 52 from verse 8
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    7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

  53. Jeremiah 51:38Rank 53 from verse 8
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    38They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

  54. Psalms 109:6Rank 54 from verse 8
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    6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

  55. Zechariah 11:3Rank 55 from verse 8
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    3There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

  56. Amos 1:2Rank 56 from verse 8
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    2And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

  57. Jeremiah 2:15Rank 57 from verse 8
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    15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

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1 Peter 5:7

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casting

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1. Throwing, placing, or causing something to move or fall in a stated direction. 2. In ‘casting out’ or ‘casting away,’ expelling, discarding, or rejecting. 3. Forming in a mould, or a form so made.

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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care

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Sense 1: Concern, attention, anxiety, or responsibility for a person or matter. Sense 2: To feel concern or regard; to take anxious thought.

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upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

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DEFINED WORDS

1 Peter 5:8

COMBINED MEANING

sober

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Self-controlled, watchful, and sound in judgment; calm and serious rather than intoxicated, frenzied, or careless.

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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devil

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Sense 1: The Devil: Satan, the old serpent, the enemy, adversary, tempter, and deceiver. Sense 2: An evil or unclean spirit. Sense 3: By figure, a person characterized by great wickedness.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

roaring

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of roar, meaning to make such a sound, especially in distress or fierceness.

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lion

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Sense 1: A large, powerful wild cat. Sense 2: Figuratively, one fierce or strong.

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about

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1. Around or near in place, position, or movement; on every side, in a circuit, from place to place, or turned from one direction or state toward another. 2. Approximately in number, measure, distance, or time. 3. Concerning, occupied with, or engaged in a matter. 4. On the point of, intending, or attempting an action.

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whom

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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

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5:1THE elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

5:2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

5:3Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

5:4And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

5:5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

5:7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

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5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

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5:9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

5:11To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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