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O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
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 I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
from Jeremiah 10:24
Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
from Jeremiah 30:11
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
from Jeremiah 5:10
Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength.
from Psalms 78:61 · a strong link
And it happened, when the ark set out, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you.
from Psalms 132:8
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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
And there are varieties of workings, but it is the same God which works all in all.
from Ephesians 4:6
And when all things shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, so that God may be all in all.
from I Corinthians 12:6
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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.
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;
from I John 3:16
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the world began;
from Titus 2:13
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
from Titus 1:2 · a strong link
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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.
Being born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, by the word of God, which lives and remains for ever.
from I John 2:27
Of his own will he fathered us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
from I Peter 1:23
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
from James 1:18
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 Ephesians 1:12
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:
For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
from Ephesians 1:4 · a strong link
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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 are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;
from I Corinthians 12:28
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
And have you not read this Scripture; The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone:
from Isaiah 28:16 · a strong link
The stone which the builders refused has become the head stone of the corner.
from Mark 12:10
This is the stone which was set at nothing of you builders, which has become the cornerstone.
from Psalms 118:22 · a strong link
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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.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
from I Chronicles 29:17
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
from II Corinthians 1:12
Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
from Job 23:10 · a strong link
You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
from James 1:12 · 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:
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;
from I Corinthians 5:7
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
from I Corinthians 15:3
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
from Luke 24:26 · a strong link
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Jeremiah 10:24 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