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For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
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.
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
from Romans 12:4
Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
from I Corinthians 12:12 · a strong link
Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.
from I Corinthians 12:27 · a strong link
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Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
And said to me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
from Leviticus 10:3
Look, my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
from Isaiah 49:3
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, so that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.
from Isaiah 42:1
I rose before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.
from Isaiah 50:4 · a strong link
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
from Psalms 119:147
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening had come, he was there alone.
from Mark 1:35
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Now to him that is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Now to him that is able to do immeasurably more than all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
from Jude 1:24 · a strong link
But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
from Ephesians 3:20 · a strong link
For, look, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
from I Corinthians 2:9 · a strong link
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
from Isaiah 65:17 · a strong link
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
from Isaiah 66:22
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Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
Which have forsaken the right way, and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
from Jude 1:11 · a strong link
He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Look, there has a people come out from Egypt: look, they cover the face of the earth, and they remain opposite me:
from II Peter 2:15
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
from Numbers 22:5
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
from Numbers 23:7
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
from Luke 2:14 · a strong link
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
from Luke 19:38
And indeed, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS.
from Psalms 72:17
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And shall not God give justice to his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great reward.
from Luke 18:7
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
from Hebrews 10:35 · a strong link
Look, I am coming soon: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.
from Hebrews 3:6
And indeed, I am coming soon; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
from Revelation of John 3:11 · a strong link
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
For every man shall bear his own burden.
from Romans 14:12
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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them as rubbish, so that I may win Christ,
from Luke 14:26 · a strong link
To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, so that I should preach among the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ;
from Philippians 3:8
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
from Ephesians 3:8
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
from Ephesians 1:7
However for this cause I obtained mercy, so that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all patience, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to eternal life.
from Ephesians 2:7
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Romans 12:4 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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