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For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his 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.
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
from I Samuel 12:22
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always angry: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
from Lamentations 3:31
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
from Isaiah 57:16
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Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
I was mute, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
from Leviticus 10:3
But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
from Psalms 39:9 · a strong link
But he turned, and said to Peter, Get you behind me, Satan: you are an offense to me: for you savor not the things that are of God, but those that are of men.
from Job 2:10
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.
from Matthew 16:23
Therefore, if food make my brother stumble, I will eat no flesh while the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.
from Romans 14:21 · a strong link
Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed:
from I Corinthians 8:13
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Now to him that is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
from Jude 1:24 · a strong link
According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, so that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
from Ephesians 5:27 · a strong link
For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
from Ephesians 1:4
For I am the LORD your God: you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping creature that creeps upon the earth.
from I Thessalonians 4:7 · a strong link
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
from Leviticus 11:44 · a strong link
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Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
Which have forsaken the right way, and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
from Jude 1:11 · a strong link
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
from II Peter 2:15
For John said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.
from Proverbs 28:4
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife: it is your brother’s nakedness.
from Matthew 14:4 · a strong link
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Surely his salvation is near them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
from Luke 2:14
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 Psalms 85:9
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
from John 1:14 · a strong link
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And shall not God give justice to his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?
A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the director of music upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
from Luke 18:7 · a strong link
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
from Psalms 88:1 · a strong link
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
from Psalms 22:2
Why should the pagans say, Where is their God? let him be known among the pagans in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.
from Psalms 42:3 · a strong link
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
from Psalms 79:10
To the director of music upon Shoshannim–Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
from Psalms 94:1
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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you.
from Luke 14:26 · a strong link
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
from Psalms 73:25
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
from Matthew 5:8 · a strong link
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Look, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
from Psalms 73:1
Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
from John 1:47
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from I Samuel 12:22 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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