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Even those men that did bring up the bad report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
from Numbers 14:37
And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
from Numbers 16:49
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
from Numbers 25:9 · a strong link
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
from I Corinthians 10:8
Flee also youthful passions: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
from I Corinthians 6:18
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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
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
from I Timothy 2:5 · a strong link
And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
from Romans 3:29
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
from Zechariah 2:11
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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.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
from I John 4:9 · a strong link
And he said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do you anything to him: for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me.
from John 3:16 · a strong link
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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.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it remain in the vine; no more can you, except you remain in me.
from I John 2:27
Let that therefore remain in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
from John 15:4 · a strong link
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue in my love.
from I John 2:24
And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
from John 15:9 · a strong link
I have manifested your name to the men who you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word.
from John 17:26 · a strong link
My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
from John 17:6
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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
Therefore he said, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.
from Ephesians 4:11
You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, so that the LORD God might dwell among them.
from Ephesians 4:8 · a strong link
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
from Psalms 68:18
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
from Acts 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.
For we have great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
from I Chronicles 29:17
The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
from Philemon 1:7
For which I am an ambassador in chains: that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
from II Timothy 1:16
That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
from Ephesians 6:20
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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:
The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb mute before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
from I Corinthians 5:7
I was mute with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
from Acts 8:32 · a strong link
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a mute man that opens not his mouth.
from Psalms 39:2
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Numbers 14:37 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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