1 Peter 5:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

Cross References

Esther 7:6

And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

Job 2:2

And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

Psalm 104:21

The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

Psalm 109:6

Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

Isaiah 50:8

He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

Jeremiah 51:38

They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

Ezekiel 19:7

And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

Ezekiel 22:25

Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.

Daniel 6:24

And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.

Hosea 11:10

They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;

Hosea 13:8

I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

Joel 3:16

And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.

Amos 1:2

And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.

Amos 3:4

Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

Amos 3:8

The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

Zechariah 11:3

The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

Zechariah 3:1

And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.

Matthew 13:39

And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.

Matthew 24:42

Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

Matthew 25:41

Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

Matthew 4:1

Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

Matthew 4:11

Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.

Mark 4:15

And these are they by the wayside, where the word is planted; and when they have given ear, the Evil One comes straight away and takes away the word which has been planted in them.

Luke 21:34

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

Luke 21:36

But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

Luke 22:31

Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:

John 8:44

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

2 Corinthians 2:11

So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

Ephesians 4:27

And do not give way to the Evil One.

Ephesians 6:11

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

1 Timothy 2:15

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

1 Timothy 2:9

And that women may be dressed in simple clothing, with a quiet and serious air; not with twisted hair and gold or jewels or robes of great price;

1 Timothy 3:11

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

1 Timothy 3:2

The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.

Titus 1:8

But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;

Titus 2:12

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

Titus 2:2

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

Titus 2:4

Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

Titus 2:6

To the young men give orders to be wise and serious-minded:

James 4:7

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

1 Peter 1:13

So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

Revelation 12:10

And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.

Revelation 12:12

Be glad then, O heavens, and you who are in them. But there is trouble for the earth and the sea: because the Evil One has come down to you, being very angry, having the knowledge that he has but a short time.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

Revelation 20:10

And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.

Revelation 20:2

And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,

Judges 14:5

Then Samson went down to Timnah and his father and his mother, and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.