1 Peter 5:9

Being firm in the faith, resist him, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Be sober, be watchful: for your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.

10But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.

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Cross References

Luke 22:32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith fail not. And when you have turned to me again, strengthen your brethren.

Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:27nor give place to the devil.

Ephesians 6:16taking up, over all, the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one:

1 Thessalonians 2:15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men,

1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 5:9-10

Sobriety and Vigilance Enjoined. ( a. d. 66.) 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. Here the apostle does three things:— I. He shows them their danger from an enemy more cruel and restless than even the worst of men, whom he describes, 1. By his characters and names. (1.) He is an adversary: " That… Read the whole commentary →

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