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Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

1 Peter 5:8 · World English Bible

Where you find this verse

How do I fight sin in my life?→Who is Satan, and what does he do?→What is spiritual warfare?→Where does temptation come from?→Are demons real and active today?→How do I pray against the enemy without fearing him?→Can a Christian be tormented by demons?→How do I discern demonic influence from ordinary struggles?→

From this verse, the Word reaches

The same threadJob 1:7

Where have you come from? From roaming the earth: the prowler at work.

“Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.””

The same threadRevelation 12:10

The accuser who accuses our brothers day and night.

“I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.”

In parallel withEphesians 6:12

Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against him.

“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

That reaches back to this verse

In parallel with (this verse)Ephesians 6:12

Your adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion.

“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”