The Vigil

from Psalms 135:13

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 135:13

Your name, O LORD, endures for ever; and your memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.

I Timothy 1:17

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

from Psalms 145:13


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Acts 20:21

Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 11:18

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then has God also to the Gentiles granted repentance to life.

from Acts 20:21

Romans 10:12

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call upon him.

from Acts 11:18 · a strong link

Isaiah 58:9

Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

from Psalms 145:18 · a strong link

Psalms 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

from Isaiah 58:9 · a strong link


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Acts 13:38

Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:

I John 2:12

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

from Acts 13:38

Acts 10:43

To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins.

from I John 2:12 · a strong link

Acts 15:9

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

from Acts 10:43

Ephesians 3:6

That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

from Acts 15:9


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Acts 17:31

Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.

Psalms 96:13

Before the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

from Acts 17:31

Revelation of John 19:11

And I saw heaven opened, and look, a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.

from Psalms 96:13 · a strong link


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Acts 4:27

For truly against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

Acts 4:30

By stretching forth your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of your holy child Jesus.

from Acts 4:27 · a strong link

Acts 3:6

Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

from Acts 4:30

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could: she has come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

from Acts 3:6

II Corinthians 8:12

For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man has, and not according to that he has not.

from Mark 14:8


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Acts 7:51

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.

Acts 7:39

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

from Acts 7:51

Numbers 14:3

And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

from Acts 7:39

Numbers 14:31

But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

from Numbers 14:3

Deuteronomy 1:39

Moreover your little ones, which you said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

from Numbers 14:31

Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, so that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

from Deuteronomy 1:39 · a strong link


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Acts 22:21

And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

from Acts 22:21 · a strong link

Ephesians 3:7

Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power.

from Acts 9:15 · a strong link

Ephesians 1:19

And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

from Ephesians 3:7 · a strong link

Ephesians 1:11

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:

from Philippians 2:13

Ephesians 1:14

Which is the deposit of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.

from Ephesians 1:11

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 135:13 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