1 Peter 5:9

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren in the world.

Noyes Bible

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. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour;

10But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, will, after ye have suffered a while, himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

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Cross References

Luke 22:32But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And do thou, when thou hast returned to me, strengthen thy brethren.

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

Ephesians 4:27and do not give place to the Devil.

Ephesians 6:16taking up, in addition to all, the shield of faith, by which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Evil One;

1 Thessalonians 2:15who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,

1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on everlasting life, to which thou wast called, and didst profess the good profession 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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