The Vigil

from Isaiah 6:3

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 6:3

And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Psalms 72:19

And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

from Isaiah 6:3

Numbers 14:21

But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

from Psalms 72:19 · a strong link

Acts 13:22

And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.

from Matthew 6:10

Psalms 89:19

Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

from Acts 13:22


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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.

Psalms 115:8

They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them.

from Isaiah 41:24 · a strong link


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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.

Titus 2:13

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

from I John 3:16

II Peter 3:12

Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

from I Corinthians 1:7 · a strong link


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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.

John 14:26

But the Helper, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.

from I John 2:27 · a strong link

I Corinthians 12:3

Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

from John 14:26

I Corinthians 8:6

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

from I Corinthians 12:3

Psalms 33:6

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

from John 1:3 · a strong link

II Peter 3:5

For this they deliberately overlook, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

from Psalms 33:6 · a strong link


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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.

Isaiah 28:16

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Look, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes will not panic.

from Ephesians 2:20 · a strong link

I Peter 2:6

Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Look, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be put to shame.

from Isaiah 28:16 · a strong link

Ephesians 1:4

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 I Peter 2:6

I Peter 1:20

Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

from Ephesians 1:4


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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 Chronicles 28:9

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

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

from I Chronicles 28:9

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs have withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

from Hosea 4:6

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.

from Isaiah 27:11


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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:

Acts 8:32

The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb mute before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

from I Peter 1:19

Psalms 39:2

I was mute with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

from Acts 8:32 · a strong link

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Isaiah 6:3 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