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מ MEM. O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day.
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.
My hands also will I lift up to your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
from Psalms 119:97
I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect to your ways.
from Psalms 119:48
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
from Psalms 119:15
Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.
from Psalms 1:2 · a strong link
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
from Psalms 119:92
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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.
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
from I Corinthians 8:4
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
from Ephesians 4:6
And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
from Ephesians 3:17
We love him, because he first loved us.
from Romans 5:5
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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.
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 I John 3:16
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 I Peter 3:18 · a strong link
By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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.
But the Helper, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.
from I John 2:27 · a strong link
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Helper, that he may remain with you for ever;
from John 14:26 · a strong link
At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you, that I will pray the Father for you:
from John 14:16
Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that has risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
from John 16:26
And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
from Romans 8:34 · a strong link
And they prayed, and said, You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show whether of these two you have chosen,
from Romans 8:27
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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
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;
from Romans 12:6
But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you;
from Romans 1:11
Night and day praying earnestly that we might see your face, and might supply what is lacking in your faith?
from Romans 15:23
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith you stand.
from I Thessalonians 3:10
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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 I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
from Hebrews 4:12 · a strong link
But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
from Revelation of John 20:4 · a strong link
And he that overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations:
from Daniel 7:18
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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 next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
from I Corinthians 5:7
And I saw no temple in it: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
from John 1:29
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 119:97 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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