The Vigil

from Isaiah 29:24

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.

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Isaiah 29:24

They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that grumbled shall learn doctrine.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

from Isaiah 29:24

Isaiah 29:9

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

from Psalms 107:27

Isaiah 19:14

The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in its midst: and they have caused Egypt to err in every its work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

from Isaiah 29:9


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I Corinthians 8:4

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.

Isaiah 41:29

Look, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their cast images are wind and confusion.

from Isaiah 41:24

Jeremiah 5:13

And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

from Isaiah 41:29

Job 8:2

How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

from Jeremiah 5:13


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I John 3:16

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.

Romans 5:8

But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

from I John 3:16 · a strong link

Romans 5:6

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

from Romans 5:8 · a strong link

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

from Romans 5:6


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I John 2:27

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.

I John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

from II John 1:2

Romans 3:9

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

from Romans 3:23 · a strong link

Romans 6:15

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.

from Romans 3:9

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

from Romans 6:15


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I Corinthians 12:28

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.

Ephesians 3:5

Which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

from I Corinthians 12:28

Jude 1:17

But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

from Ephesians 3:5 · a strong link

II Peter 3:2

That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

from Jude 1:17 · a strong link

Luke 1:70

As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

from II Peter 3:2


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I Chronicles 29:17

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.

I Timothy 4:6

If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which you have attained.

from II Timothy 3:10 · a strong link

Colossians 4:7

All my circumstances shall Tychicus declare to you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord:

from I Timothy 4:6


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I Corinthians 5:7

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:

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

from Romans 12:5 · a strong link

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Isaiah 29:24 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