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And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
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 the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; so that many said, He is dead.
from Mark 1:26
And they brought him to him: and when he saw him, immediately the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
from Mark 9:26
And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
from Mark 9:20
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Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
And say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Look, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
from Leviticus 10:3
Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord GOD.
from Ezekiel 28:22
And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure to it.
from Ezekiel 39:13
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
from Jeremiah 33:9
For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
from Hosea 3:5
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
from Jeremiah 33:17
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Now to him that is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight:
from Jude 1:24 · a strong link
By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
from Colossians 1:22
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
from Hebrews 10:10
Who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
from John 17:19
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
from Titus 2:14
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Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
from Jude 1:11
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
Yes, and why even of yourselves judge you not what is right?
from Romans 14:13 · a strong link
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
from Luke 12:57
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
from Luke 2:14 · a strong link
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
from Luke 1:79
Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.
from Psalms 85:10 · a strong link
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And shall not God give justice to his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
from Luke 18:7 · a strong link
For these be the days of vengeance, so that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
from Luke 21:22
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great prostitute, which did corrupt the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
from Isaiah 34:8
Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people.
from Revelation of John 19:2 · a strong link
But those my enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring here, and slay them before me.
from Deuteronomy 32:43
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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.
from Luke 14:26 · a strong link
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
from John 12:25
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
from Luke 9:23
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and indeed, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
from I Corinthians 15:30
As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
from II Corinthians 6:9
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Mark 1:26 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.
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