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You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.
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.
Then said Paul, I knew not, brothers, that he was the high priest: for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.
from Exodus 22:28 · a strong link
Curse not the king, not even in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.
from Acts 23:5
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall happen, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
from Ecclesiastes 10:20
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
from Isaiah 8:21
And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
from Isaiah 9:20 · a strong link
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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.
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
from I Corinthians 8:4
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
from Mark 12:29
Neither is there any umpire between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
from Galatians 3:20
If I speak of strength, look, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
from Job 9:33
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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.
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
from I John 3:16
You have also given me the necks of my enemies, so that I might destroy them that hate me.
from Romans 16:4
I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
from II Samuel 22:41 · a strong link
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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 this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
from I John 2:27
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
from Hebrews 8:10 · a strong link
Jesus answered them, You do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
from Zechariah 13:9 · a strong link
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to eternal life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
from Matthew 22:29
And have hope toward God, who they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
from Daniel 12:2
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
from Acts 24:15
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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.
Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
from I Corinthians 12:28
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
from Acts 20:28
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
from I Peter 2:9 · a strong link
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
from I Corinthians 3:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
from Ezekiel 7:22
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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.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
from I Chronicles 29:17
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
from II Corinthians 1:12
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
from II Corinthians 4:2
Having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from such turn away.
from II Corinthians 11:13
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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:
That you put off your old self, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
from I Corinthians 5:7
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
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 Exodus 22:28 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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