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Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
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.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
from Philippians 1:4
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and to that end with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
from Romans 1:9
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
from Ephesians 6:18 · a strong link
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
from Ephesians 1:16 · a strong link
To him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
from Romans 1:8
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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.
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
from I Corinthians 8:4
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
from Mark 12:29
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
from Galatians 3:20 · a strong link
Therefore he is able also to save them completely that come to God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
from I Timothy 2:5 · 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.
Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
from Philippians 2:17 · a strong link
Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
from II Corinthians 12:15
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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.
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
from I John 2:27
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
from John 16:13 · a strong link
Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not know your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates?
from John 14:17
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my inmost thoughts and my heart.
from II Corinthians 13:5
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and inmost thoughts.
from Psalms 26:2 · a strong link
To the director of music, A Psalm of David. O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.
from Psalms 7:9
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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.
Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
from I Corinthians 12:28
An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
from Acts 20:28
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
from I Timothy 3:2 · a strong link
For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings to God;
from Romans 12:13
But by an equality, so that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, so that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
from II Corinthians 9:12
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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 the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart.
from I Chronicles 29:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
from Hebrews 4:12 · a strong link
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
from Ephesians 6:17 · a strong link
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
from I Thessalonians 5:8
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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 I saw, and, look, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
from I Corinthians 5:7
After this I saw, and, look, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
But you have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Philippians 1:4 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