Avoiding Satan’s Snares

1 Peter 5:8

Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Don’t Stray

Psalms 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.

James 4:7-8

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

8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Don’t Strut

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

John 12:42

Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;

43 for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Don’t Stoop

Romans 12:21

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Don’t Stop

Matthew 10:22

All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.

Romans 8:37-39

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.