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Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
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.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
from Psalms 25:3
Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
from Psalms 69:4 · a strong link
He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
from Psalms 35:19
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
from Proverbs 10:10
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
from Proverbs 10:8
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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.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
from I Corinthians 8:4
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? and rule not you over all the kingdoms of the pagans? and in your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand you?
from Deuteronomy 4:39
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.
from II Chronicles 20:6 · a strong link
And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, so that he should repent.
from I Chronicles 29:11
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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.
He who says that he remains in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
from I John 3:16
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
from I John 2:6 · a strong link
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:
from Matthew 11:29
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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
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
from I Thessalonians 2:13
When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then came the wicked one, and caught away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed along the path.
from Luke 8:11
Therefore we ought to pay much closer attention to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should drift away.
from Matthew 13:19
ב BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed to it according to your word.
from Hebrews 2:1
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
from Psalms 119:9
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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.
Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
from I Corinthians 12:28
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
from Acts 20:28
Remember your leaders, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct.
from I Timothy 5:17
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
from Hebrews 13:7
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knows; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
from I Timothy 3:5
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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
Brothers, pray for us.
from Hebrews 13:18 · a strong link
Also praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains:
from I Thessalonians 5:25
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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 looking upon Jesus as he walked, he said, Look, the Lamb of God!
from I Corinthians 5:7
Looking to Jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
from John 1:36
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.
from Hebrews 12:2
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 25:3 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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