1 Peter 5:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

1 Peter 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be sober - While you cast your cares Upon God, and have no anxiety on that score, let your solicitude be directed to another point. Do not doubt that he is able and willing to support and befrien...
1 Peter 5:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(11) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (11) The cruelty of Satan, who seeks by all means to devour us, is overcom...
1 Peter 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Further counsels to watchfulness, and to sympathy, closing with a renewed promise of God's reward, and a short doxology. 1 Peter 5:8 . seeking whom: the rendering seeking someone to devour, foun...
1 Peter 5:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Be sober . See 1 Peter 1:13 . be vigilant. Greek. gregoreo. Translated "watch", except here and 1 Thessalonians 5:10 (wake). roaring . Greek. oruomai. Only here. Compare 2 Corinthians 1...
1 Peter 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8 Be sober This explanation extends wider, that as we have war with a most fierce and most powerful enemy, we are to be strenuous in resisting him. But he uses a twofold metaphor, that they...
1 Peter 5:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2414 THE MEANS OF DEFEATING SATAN’S MALICE 1 Peter 5:8-9 . Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom...
1 Peter 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Be sober - Avoid drunkenness of your senses, and drunkenness in your souls; be n...
1 Peter 5:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Be sober, be vigilant, &c.— They were not so to cast all their care upon God, as to be off their guard, or to indulge in any vice; they were to watch, like soldiers encamped near an enemy, le...
1 Peter 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Peter has in mind Christ's warning to watch against Satan, from forgettin...
1 Peter 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Encouragements to Shepherds and to Flock. Promise of God's Protection. Farewells B . 1 Peter 5:1-5 . 'To behave well in this trial you must preserve discipline. Let old and young, rulers and rul...
1 Peter 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

V. (1-11) FURTHER EXHORTATIONS SUGGESTED BY THE CRISIS. — The officers of the community are not to flinch from the duties imposed upon them, nor yet to perform them in any spirit of self-assertion...
1 Peter 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 18 THROUGH PERILS TO VICTORY 1 Peter 5:8-14 NOT only had these Asian Christians to suffer from the opposition and calumnies of the heathen and from the estrangement of former friends:...
1 Peter 5:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Resisting the Devil 1 Peter 5:8-14 We hear of the adversary in Zechariah 3:1 . The enemy of Christ desires to hurt the Shepherd by injuring His flock. The hunger of a lion for his prey is an e...
1 Peter 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Finally, the apostle proceeded to strengthen his brethren for conflict. The first matter dealt with was the general orderliness of the Church. He enjoined the elders that they care for the flock. The...
1 Peter 5:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Likewise, 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. (6) Humbl...
1 Peter 5:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE PERSONALITY OF EVIL ‘Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith.’ 1 Peter 5:8-9...
1 Peter 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Be sober, be vigilant ,.... The apostle had exhorted to each of these before; see 1 Peter 1:13 but thought fit to repeat them; sobriety and watchfulness being exceeding necessary and useful in the...
1 Peter 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Ver. 8. Your adversary the devil ] Satan envies our condition that we should...
1 Peter 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be sober See on 1 Thessalonians 5:6 . Keep your appetites and passions under proper restraint and government, or awake , as υηψανε also signifies; namely, to a deep sense of the certainty and imp...
1 Peter 5:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Consistently with Peter's subject of governmental order, he now address elders in v.1, and those younger in v.5. Proper balance in this relationship is always deeply important, for on either side fri...
1 Peter 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sobriety and Vigilance Enjoined. A. D. 66. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary t...
1 Peter 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Be sober: see 1 Peter 1:13 , 1 Peter 4:7 : q.d. Ye have to do with a mad enemy, a raging devil; ye had need yourselves be sober; not only in meats and drinks, &c., but as to the cares of th...
1 Peter 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Grand Finale ( 1 Peter 5:1-13 ). As Peter comes to the close of his letter the thought of suffering followed by glory continues: · In 1 Peter 3:18-22 He had spoken of the sufferings of Chri...
1 Peter 5:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 Peter 5:8 . The devil .—Thought of under the figure of a wild beast that, at any moment, may put the flock in peril. Those who fall into sin are often surprised a...
1 Peter 5:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 Companionship in Temptation. I. St. Peter evidently thought that the conviction of companionship in temptation was meant by God to be a source of strength. We are hourly and daily ass...
1 Peter 5:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Peter 5:1 . The 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: Here again, as in...
1 Peter 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 5:1 . Who am also an elder. See the note on Acts 20:28 , and on Philippians 1:1 . Let the bishops, says Jerome, know that they are greater than other presbyters, rather by custom than by...
1 Peter 5:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Be sober, be vigilant. The advantages of moderation in the enjoyment of sensual pleasure Christianity in its precepts and commands, as well as in its doctrines, is precisely suited to our natur...
1 Peter 5:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Expositions 1 Peter 5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort. The Vatican and Alexandrine Manuscripts omit the article, and insert "therefore" (the Sinaitic gives both), reading, "Eld...
1 Peter 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Humility and vigilance enjoined:
1 Peter 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:8-10 ; 1 Peter 1:13 ; 1 Peter 4:7 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 ; 1 Timothy 2:15 ; 1 Timothy 2:9 ; 1 Timothy 3:11 ; 1 Timothy 3:2 ; 2 Timothy 4:17 ; Amos 1:2 ; Amos 3:4 ; Amos 3:8 ; D...
1 Peter 5:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But in the mean time watch. There is a close connexion between this, and the duly casting our care upon him. How deeply had St. Peter himself suffered for want of watching! Be vigilant — As if he h...

1 Peter 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Peter 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Peter 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Peter 5:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 5:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Peter 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 5:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Peter 5:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Peter 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Peter 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes