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I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.
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.
I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have given me life.
from Psalms 119:176
I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
from Psalms 119:93
Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
from Psalms 119:16
I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great plunder.
from Psalms 119:24
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
from Psalms 119:162
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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
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.
from I Timothy 2:5
And killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead; of which we are witnesses.
from I Corinthians 15:45
For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
from Acts 3:15
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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.
As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
from I John 3:16
For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit:
from John 10:15
Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
from I Peter 3:18
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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 cause we also thank God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which is at work also in you that believe.
from I John 2:27
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
from I Thessalonians 2:13 · a strong link
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
from Romans 10:17 · a strong link
For this reason I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him for that day.
from Romans 1:16 · a strong link
Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them as rubbish, so that I may win Christ,
from II Timothy 1:12
At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
from Philippians 3:8
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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
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
from Romans 12:6
He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
from I Corinthians 13:2
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
from I John 4:8
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
from Ephesians 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.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Look, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
from I Chronicles 29:17
Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
from John 1:47
Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all slander,
from Psalms 32:2
I have fed you with milk, and not with food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.
from I Peter 2:1
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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 the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said to him, Where will you that we go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?
from I Corinthians 5:7
And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
from Mark 14:12
I have heard the grumblings of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, At even you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.
from Exodus 12:6
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 119:176 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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