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For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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.
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
from II Corinthians 13:8
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
from Acts 13:3 · a strong link
Neglect not the gift in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
from Acts 6:6 · a strong link
This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might wage the good warfare;
from I Timothy 4:14 · a strong link
I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
from I Timothy 1:18
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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.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
from I Corinthians 8:4 · a strong link
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to withstand his indignation.
from Deuteronomy 6:4
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
from Jeremiah 10:10 · a strong link
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
from Psalms 42:2
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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.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
We love him, because he first loved us.
from John 3:16 · a strong link
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
from I John 4:19 · 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.
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
from I John 2:27 · a strong link
But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
from I John 2:20
Test everything; hold fast that which is good.
from I Corinthians 2:15
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
from I Thessalonians 5:21 · a strong link
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another various kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
from I John 4:1
And it shall happen afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
from I Corinthians 12:10
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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.
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
from I Corinthians 12:28
For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
from Romans 12:6 · a strong link
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
from I Corinthians 7:7 · a strong link
And when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.
from I Corinthians 9:5
And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s mother-in-law was taken with a great fever; and they begged him for her.
from Matthew 8:14
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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.
And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.
from I Chronicles 29:17 · a strong link
Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
from I Chronicles 28:9 · a strong link
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a charge against the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, says the LORD.
from Hosea 4:1
Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a charge against his people, and he will plead with Israel.
from Jeremiah 25:31
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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:
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he said, Look, the Lamb of God!
from I Corinthians 5:7
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
from John 1:36 · a strong link
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
from I Peter 1:19
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from II Corinthians 13:8 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