The Vigil

from Psalms 113:5

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.

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Psalms 113:5

Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

Exodus 8:10

And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to your word: that you may know that there is none like to the LORD our God.

from Jeremiah 10:6

I Chronicles 17:20

O LORD, there is none like you, neither is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

from Exodus 8:10 · a strong link

Revelation of John 4:8

And the four living creatures had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

from Exodus 15:11 · a strong link


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I Corinthians 8:4

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.

Isaiah 42:8

I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to carved images.

from Deuteronomy 6:4

John 5:23

That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.

from Isaiah 42:8


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I John 3:16

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.

Matthew 20:28

Even as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

from I John 3:16

Romans 5:15

But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.

from Matthew 20:28

Romans 5:12

Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

from Romans 5:15 · a strong link


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I John 2:27

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.

II Peter 1:16

For we have not followed cleverly devised myths, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

from I John 2:27

I Corinthians 1:17

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

from II Peter 1:16 · a strong link

Jude 1:23

And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

from II Corinthians 5:11 · a strong link

Leviticus 13:47

The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

from Jude 1:23


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I Corinthians 12:28

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.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct.

from Hebrews 13:24 · a strong link

I Corinthians 1:18

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God.

from Romans 10:17


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I Chronicles 29:17

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 Timothy 4:6

If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which you have attained.

from II Timothy 3:10 · a strong link

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

from I Timothy 4:6


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I Corinthians 5:7

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:

Romans 6:6

Knowing this, that our old self is crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that from now on we should not serve sin.

from Ephesians 4:22 · a strong link

Galatians 6:14

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

from Romans 6:6

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 113:5 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.

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