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Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
from Psalms 13:3 · a strong link
Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink, and be drunken, and spit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
from Jeremiah 51:39
Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
from Jeremiah 25:27
O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, look, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
from Isaiah 51:21
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the bronze for things of bronze, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of various colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
from Isaiah 54:11
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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 this is life eternal, so that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
from I Timothy 2:5
O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
from John 17:3 · a strong link
Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
from John 17:25
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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.
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;
from I John 3:16
I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
from Titus 2:13
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.
from II Timothy 4:1
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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 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
Neither give heed to myths and endless genealogies, which promote controversies, rather than godly building up in faith: so do.
from II Peter 1:16
Not giving heed to Jewish myths, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
from I Timothy 1:4 · a strong link
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
from Titus 1:14 · a strong link
But he answered them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
from Colossians 2:22
And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but consider not the plank in your own eye?
from Matthew 15:3
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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.
Which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
from I Corinthians 12:28
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is after godliness;
from Ephesians 3:5
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
from Titus 1:1
And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
from Titus 2:11
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
from Mark 16:15
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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 our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
from I Chronicles 29:17
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
from II Corinthians 1:12
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.
from Hebrews 13:18
And Paul, earnestly seeing the council, said, Men and brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
from Acts 24:16 · a strong link
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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
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the LORD.
from Exodus 12:6
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 13:3 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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