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And the people stood in the distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
The Vigil
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.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
from Exodus 20:21
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
from Psalms 18:9
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Look, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints,
from Matthew 25:31
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.
from Jude 1:14
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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.
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
from I Corinthians 8:4
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
from Ephesians 4:6 · a strong link
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
from Romans 11:36 · a strong link
If any man speak, let him speak as the utterances of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
from I Peter 5:11
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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.
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant offering.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
from Ephesians 5:2 · a strong link
Owe no one anything, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.
from Colossians 3:14
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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.
For the truth’s sake, which dwells in us, and shall be with us for ever.
from I John 2:27
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
from II John 1:2
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
from I John 1:8
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
from Proverbs 20:9
Look, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
from Job 14:4
What is man, so that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, so that he should be righteous?
from Psalms 51:5
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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.
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;
from I Corinthians 12:28
This is the stone which was set at nothing of you builders, which has become the cornerstone.
from Ephesians 2:20
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Look, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes will not panic.
from Acts 4:11
Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the cornerstone: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?
from Isaiah 28:16 · a strong link
And he saw them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the cornerstone?
from Matthew 21:42
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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.
But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
from I Chronicles 29:17
You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought in the distance.
from I Samuel 16:7 · a strong link
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why do you think evil in your hearts?
from Psalms 139:2 · a strong link
But Jesus did not commit himself to them, because he knew all men,
from Matthew 9:4
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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:
The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb mute before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
from I Corinthians 5:7
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy its tree with the fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
from Acts 8:32
And at the season he sent a servant to the farmers, so that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
from Jeremiah 11:19
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Exodus 20:21 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.
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