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The greeting of me Paul with my own hand.
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.
The greeting by the hand of me Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.
from I Corinthians 16:21 · a strong link
All that are with me greet you. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
from Colossians 4:18
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
from Titus 3:15
Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
from Ephesians 6:23 · a strong link
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Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in me.
from Acts 20:21
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
from Acts 26:18 · a strong link
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
from Isaiah 35:5 · a strong link
And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the mute to speak.
from Isaiah 29:18
And God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
from Mark 7:37
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Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:
And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
from Acts 13:38
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
from II Corinthians 5:18
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 2:2 · a strong link
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 4:10
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
from I Peter 3:18
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
from II Corinthians 13:4
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Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
from Acts 17:31
Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
from Romans 2:16 · a strong link
How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote before in few words,
from Romans 16:25
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For truly against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
By stretching forth your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of your holy child Jesus.
from Acts 4:27 · a strong link
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
from Acts 4:30
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.
from Acts 3:6
Moreover the law entered, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
from II Corinthians 8:9
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You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.
And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
from Acts 7:51 · a strong link
However Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
from Leviticus 26:41
And when he was in affliction, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
from II Chronicles 32:26
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
from II Chronicles 33:12
Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
from II Chronicles 28:22
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And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.
But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
from Acts 22:21 · a strong link
To which I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
from Acts 9:15
Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power.
from I Timothy 2:7
Who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
from Ephesians 3:7
Even when we were dead in sins, has made us alive together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)
from II Corinthians 3:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
from Ephesians 2:5
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from I Corinthians 16:21 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.
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