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But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
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.
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
from I Corinthians 6:6
Finally, be all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brothers, be compassionate, be courteous:
from I John 3:11
Be devoted one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
from I Peter 3:8 · a strong link
For, brothers, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but by love serve one another.
from Romans 12:10
Love is patient, and is kind; love envies not; love does not boast, is not arrogant,
from Galatians 5:13
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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.
Look, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing: an abomination is he that chooses you.
from I Corinthians 8:4
They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them.
from Isaiah 41:24 · a strong link
They that make them are like to them: so is every one that trusts in them.
from Psalms 115:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
from Psalms 135:18
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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.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
from I John 4:9
The first man is of the earth, of dust: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
from John 1:14 · 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 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
For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.
from I John 1:8
For in many things we all stumble. If any man does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
from Ecclesiastes 7:20
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
from James 3:2
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
from Romans 7:21
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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
To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
from Acts 20:28
However we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:
from I Corinthians 12:8
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:
from I Corinthians 2:6 · a strong link
How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
from I Corinthians 1:28
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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
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
from I Chronicles 28:9
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
from Isaiah 1:28
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.
from Psalms 1:6 · a strong link
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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
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
from Ephesians 4:22
Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
from Ezekiel 18:30
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from I Corinthians 6:6 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