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Therefore will I do to this house, which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
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.
And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.
from Jeremiah 7:14
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
from Deuteronomy 28:52
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
from Jeremiah 37:8
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 39:2
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
from Jeremiah 5:10
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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
Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped:
from I Timothy 2:5
Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.
from Philippians 2:6
And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things says the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
from John 8:58
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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.
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
from I John 3:16
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do you.
from Romans 16:4
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
from I Corinthians 16:1
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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.
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
Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
from John 14:26
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
from Psalms 51:11
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
from Psalms 71:18 · a strong link
The days of our years are sixty years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
from Psalms 71:9
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
from Psalms 90:10
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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 he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
from I Corinthians 12:28 · a strong link
Now for a long season Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
from Ephesians 4:11
And that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.
from II Chronicles 15:3
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
from Leviticus 10:11
You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not kill; and whoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
from Nehemiah 8:8
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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.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the inmost thoughts, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
from I Chronicles 29:17 · a strong link
But, O LORD of hosts, that try the righteous, and see the inmost thoughts and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.
from Jeremiah 17:10 · a strong link
For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen his desire upon my enemies.
from Jeremiah 20:12 · 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 Psalms 54:7
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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 we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
from I Corinthians 5:7
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
from I Corinthians 10:17
For the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ:
from I Corinthians 12:12
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Jeremiah 7:14 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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