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Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come.
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 that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
from Matthew 24:42
Therefore he says, Wake up, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
from Romans 13:11 · a strong link
Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high has visited us,
from Ephesians 5:14
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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 said to me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
from Leviticus 10:3
Look, my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
from Isaiah 49:3
To whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
from Isaiah 42:1
This is the stone which was set at nothing of you builders, which has become the cornerstone.
from I Peter 2:4
The stone which the builders refused has become the head stone of the corner.
from Acts 4:11 · a strong link
And he saw them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the cornerstone?
from Psalms 118:22 · a strong link
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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,
Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
from Jude 1:24
And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
from Romans 16:25
Giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
from Acts 20:32 · a strong link
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:
from Colossians 1:12 · a strong link
In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
from Ephesians 1:11
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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.
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
from Jude 1:11
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
from Numbers 16:1
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
from Numbers 27:3 · a strong link
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, was thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the warriors were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD swore to them.
from Numbers 26:64 · a strong link
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
from Luke 2:14
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
from Isaiah 9:6
For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the same hour what you ought to say.
from Luke 21:15
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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?
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
from Luke 18:7
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
from I Timothy 5:5
The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
from I Peter 3:5
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
from Titus 2:3 · a strong link
Heartless, irreconcilable, false accusers, without self-control, fierce, haters of good,
from I Timothy 3:11
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
from II Timothy 3:3
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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.
Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant.
from Luke 14:26
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
from Deuteronomy 33:9
You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is hostility with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
from Galatians 1:10 · a strong link
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unstained from the world.
from James 4:4 · a strong link
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
from James 1:27 · a strong link
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Matthew 24:42 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