BE SOBER-MINDED : Strong’s Greek 3525: “I am calm, vigilant, circumspect, discreet.

AND VIGILANT : Strong’s Greek 1127: I am awake (in the night), watch, I am watchful, on the alert, vigilant. From egeiro; to keep awake.

YOUR ADVERSARY : Strong’s Greek 476: An opponent (at law), an adversary. From anti and dike; an opponent; especially, Satan.

THE DEVIL : Strong’s Greek 1228: From diaballo; a traducer, which is someone who defames, slanders and speaks ill of you. Especially, Satan.

WHO GOES ABOUT : Strong’s Greek 4043: From “peri” (around) and “pateó” (to walk). To walk around, properly, walk around, i.e. in a complete circuit (going “full circle”).

LIKE A ROARING LION : “Similar to a roaring lion” Strong’s Greek 5612: To roar, howl, as a beast.

SEEKING : Strong’s Greek 2212: To seek, search for, desire, require, demand, or to plot.

WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR : Strong’s Greek 2666: swallow up, devour, destroy, consume. The verb “katapinó” is used in the New Testament to convey the act of swallowing or consuming something completely. In a figurative sense, such as being overwhelmed by emotions or circumstances.

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. (SWALLOW UP) “ 1 Peter 5:8 KJV

“But The LORD stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.” 2 Timothy 4:17

“For thus The LORD has spoken to me: “As a lion roars, And a YOUNG LION over his prey (When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, He will not be afraid of their voice nor be disturbed by their noise), So The LORD of hosts will come down to fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.” Isaiah 31:4

“Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Revelation 5:5

“He will SWALLOW UP death forever. The LORD GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For The LORD has spoken.” Isaiah 25:8

“When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been SWALLOWED UP in victory.” “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Grave, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!” 1 Corinthians 15:54-57

“So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be SWALLOWED UP by life.” 2 Corinthians 5:4

“Now since the children have flesh and blood, He (Jesus) too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might DESTROY him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil.” Hebrews 2:14

“Let those who plot against me be turned back and confused!” Psalm 35:4

“Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.” Psalm 21:11

“Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace”. Psalm 83:17

“All the enemies of God will perish. For the wicked have only a momentary value, a fading glory. Then one day they vanish!” Psalms 37:18-20

“And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Colossians 2:13-15