casting all your cares on him, because he cares[a] for you.

Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Resist him[b], steadfast in your[c] faith, because you[d] know the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 5:7 Literally “it is a care to him”
  2. 1 Peter 5:9 Literally “to whom resist”
  3. 1 Peter 5:9 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  4. 1 Peter 5:9 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal