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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.
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.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.
from I Corinthians 7:15 · a strong link
Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.
from Romans 14:19 · a strong link
Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
from Romans 15:2 · a strong link
Does not behave improperly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
from I Corinthians 10:24 · a strong link
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.
from I Corinthians 13:5
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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.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
from I Corinthians 8:4
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
from Deuteronomy 4:39 · a strong link
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
from Joshua 2:11 · a strong link
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
from Isaiah 13:7
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But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother have need, and closes his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?
He answered and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.
from I John 3:17
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
from Luke 3:11
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
from Luke 18:22
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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 bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
from I John 1:8
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
from Job 14:4
I know it is so truly: but how should man be just with God?
from Job 25:4
And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.
from Job 9:2
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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 he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
from I Corinthians 12:28 · a strong link
And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
from Ephesians 4:11 · a strong link
And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD.
from Jeremiah 3:15 · a strong link
Who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
from Jeremiah 23:4
But we must give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
from I Peter 1:5
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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.
They that are of a perverse heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
from I Chronicles 29:17
א ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
from Proverbs 11:20
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.
from Psalms 119:1
And Paul, earnestly seeing the council, said, Men and brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
from Acts 24:16 · 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 laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all slander,
from Ephesians 4:22 · a strong link
Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
from I Peter 2:1
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from I Corinthians 7:15 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