⁸ Be alert and of sober mind.^(A) Your enemy the devil prowls around^(B) like a roaring lion^(C) looking for someone to devour.

⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,^(A) and he will flee from you.

²⁵ not giving up meeting together,^(A) as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another^(B)—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.^(C)

¹² So, if you think you are standing firm,^(A) be careful that you don’t fall!

¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life,^(A) and have it to the full.^(B)

¹¹ in order that Satan^(A) might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.^(B)

Psalm 7^[a]

A shiggaion^[b](A) of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite.