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Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,
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 rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.
from Matthew 4:5
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
from Nehemiah 11:1
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
from Nehemiah 10:34
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
from Isaiah 40:16
Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
from Psalms 40:6
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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
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him?
from I Timothy 2:5
What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?
from Hebrews 2:6 · a strong link
What is man, so that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart upon him?
from Psalms 8:4 · a strong link
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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.
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant offering.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
from Ephesians 5:2
The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the abyss, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
from Hebrews 9:26
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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.
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
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
from Hebrews 8:10 · a strong link
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
from Jeremiah 32:38
Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
from Zechariah 13:9 · a strong link
Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
from Isaiah 58:9
Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
from Jeremiah 29:12 · 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.
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
from I Corinthians 12:28
But he that prophesies speaks to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
from Romans 12:6
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
from I Corinthians 14:3 · a strong link
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
from I Timothy 4:13
Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
from Proverbs 2:4
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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
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
from Jeremiah 17:10 · a strong link
But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the inmost thoughts and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I revealed my cause.
from Psalms 139:23
That are far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that are far from you: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
from Jeremiah 11:20
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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:
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he said, Look, the Lamb of God!
from I Corinthians 5:7
Looking to Jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
from John 1:36
For our citizenship is in heaven; from where also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:
from Hebrews 12:2
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Matthew 4:5 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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