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But godliness with contentment is great gain.
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 bodily training profits little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
from I Timothy 6:6 · a strong link
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
from I Timothy 4:8
When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
from Psalms 37:9
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.
from Isaiah 57:13
Saying to them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.
from Isaiah 56:7 · a strong link
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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.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
from I Corinthians 8:4
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
from I Timothy 2:5
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
from Ephesians 4:6 · a strong link
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me to his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
from Romans 11:36 · a strong link
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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.
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant offering.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
For even to this were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, so that you should follow his steps:
from Ephesians 5:2
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 Peter 2:21
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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.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
from I John 2:27
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
from I Corinthians 2:13
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
from Colossians 3:16 · a strong link
I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify your name for evermore.
from Ephesians 5:19
Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
from Psalms 86:12
A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
from Psalms 146:1
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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
Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
from Acts 20:28
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain;
from Philippians 1:1 · a strong link
The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
from I Timothy 3:8
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
from Titus 2:3
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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.
You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
from I Chronicles 29:17
Neither as domineering over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.
from I Thessalonians 2:10
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example to you to follow us.
from I Peter 5:3 · a strong link
For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
from II Thessalonians 3:9
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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:
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is mute, so he opens not his mouth.
from I Corinthians 5:7
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
from Isaiah 53:7 · a strong link
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he breathed his last.
from I Peter 2:23
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from I Timothy 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