The Vigil

from Acts 5:31

Today’s scroll, one verse at a time — each linked to the last by the cross-references rather than by any model of you. The same vigil for everyone, and a different one tomorrow.

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Acts 5:31

Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

Luke 24:47

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

from Acts 5:31 · a strong link

Psalms 22:27

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.

from Luke 24:47

Psalms 2:8

Ask of me, and I shall give you the pagans for your inheritance, and the farthest parts of the earth for your possession.

from Psalms 22:27 · a strong link

Daniel 7:13

I saw in the night visions, and one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

from Psalms 2:8

Mark 13:26

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

from Daniel 7:13


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I Corinthians 8:4

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

Hebrews 12:24

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.

from I Timothy 2:5

I Peter 1:2

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.

from Hebrews 12:24

Romans 11:2

God has not cast away his people who he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying,

from I Peter 1:2 · a strong link


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I John 3:16

By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

I Peter 3:18

For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit:

from I John 3:16

Hebrews 9:26

For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

from I Peter 3:18 · a strong link

I Peter 1:20

Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

from Hebrews 9:26 · a strong link


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I John 2:27

But the anointing which you have received of him remains in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall remain in him.

John 15:4

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it remain in the vine; no more can you, except you remain in me.

from I John 2:27

Ezekiel 15:2

Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch among the trees of the forest?

from John 15:4 · a strong link

Isaiah 5:1

Now will I sing to my beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

from Ezekiel 15:2

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

from Isaiah 5:1

Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

from Jeremiah 2:21

Ezekiel 16:45

You are your mother’s daughter, that lothes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

from Deuteronomy 32:32


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I Corinthians 12:28

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, varieties of tongues.

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

from I Corinthians 12:28 · a strong link

I Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

from Hebrews 13:17

Esther 1:16

And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

from Ephesians 5:22


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I Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly to you.

Psalms 32:1

A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

from Psalms 119:1


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I Corinthians 5:7

Clean out therefore the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:

Romans 6:6

Knowing this, that our old self is crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that from now on we should not serve sin.

from Ephesians 4:22 · a strong link

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is the servant of sin.

from Romans 6:6

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Acts 5:31 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.

Each verse follows the one before it along the chain a study Bible draws — a century old, public, and compiled by people arguing about Scripture rather than about how long you stay. Every card says which verse it came from and opens the chapter it belongs to. Today’s vigil is the same for every reader and is worked out from the date alone, so there is no account, no counter, and nothing stored in your browser or ours.

The text is the Lantern Modern Standard. The links are openbible.info’s cross-reference set (CC BY), the same apparatus behind the reader’s Echoes drawer. Read a whole book · Today’s table