Scripture warns believers to be vigilant against the adversary who seeks to destroy their faith and relationship with God. According to 1 Peter 5:8, this enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Jesus describes him as a thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy in John 10:10. The letters of John, particularly 1 John 4:1-3, caution against the deceptive work of this enemy, urging believers to test spirits and trust in God's love and protection, as Jesus encourages in John 14:1.
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Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”