The Vigil

from Joshua 7:11

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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Joshua 7:11

Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the things devoted to destruction, and have also stolen, and acted hypocritically also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Acts 5:1

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

from Joshua 7:11

Leviticus 10:1

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, who he commanded them not.

from Acts 5:1

Numbers 3:4

And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

from Numbers 26:61 · a strong link


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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.

Colossians 3:11

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

from I Corinthians 12:6

Romans 10:12

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call upon him.

from Colossians 3:11 · 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.

I John 2:6

He who says that he remains in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

from I John 3:16

I John 2:28

And now, little children, remain in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

from I John 2:6

Isaiah 45:17

But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

from I John 2:28


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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.

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

from I John 2:27


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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.

Jeremiah 3:15

And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

from Ephesians 4:11 · a strong link

I Samuel 13:14

But now your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be captain over his people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you.

from Jeremiah 3:15

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 I Samuel 13:14 · a strong link

I Kings 15:5

Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

from Acts 13:22


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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 4:12

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

from Titus 2:7 · a strong link


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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:

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Joshua 7:11 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