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The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
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.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that says to Zion, Your God reigns!
from Psalms 72:3
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
from Isaiah 52:7
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
from Isaiah 61:1 · a strong link
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
from John 8:32 · a strong link
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
from II Corinthians 3:17 · a strong link
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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
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
from Ephesians 3:17
And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
from I John 4:4 · a strong link
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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.
But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
from Romans 5:8 · a strong link
And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
from John 3:16 · a strong link
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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 is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
from I John 2:27
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
from Hebrews 8:10 · a strong link
For this is my covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins.
from Hebrews 10:16 · a strong link
Look, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
from Romans 11:27
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.
from Jeremiah 31:31 · a strong link
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
from Luke 22:20
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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 say, through the grace given to me, to every man among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
from Romans 12:6 · a strong link
Be not righteous over much; neither make yourself over wise: why should you destroy yourself?
from Romans 12:3
Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.
from Ecclesiastes 7:16
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
from Proverbs 25:16
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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
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatever does make manifest is light.
from Hebrews 4:12 · a strong link
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
from Ephesians 5:13
And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bore: and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be discovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
from Hosea 2:10
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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 there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
from John 1:29
So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Psalms 72:3 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.
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