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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and 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.
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
from Romans 8:2 · a strong link
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
from John 8:32 · a strong link
What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
from John 7:17
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
from Psalms 25:12 · a strong link
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
from Psalms 37:23 · 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.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
from I Corinthians 8:4 · a strong link
And this is life eternal, so that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
from Deuteronomy 6:4
I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.
from John 17:3
Let us therefore, as many as are mature, think this way: and if in anything you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.
from John 17:23
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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.
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant offering.
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.
from Ephesians 5:2
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
from John 15:12 · 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.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it remain in the vine; no more can you, except you remain in me.
from I John 2:27
He who says that he remains in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
from John 15:4 · a strong link
Whoever remains in him sins not: whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.
from I John 2:6
Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
from I John 3:6 · a strong link
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are opposed to each other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
from I John 3:9
My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times.
from Galatians 5:17
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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 wish that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
from Romans 12:6 · a strong link
But he said to them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
from I Corinthians 7:7 · a strong link
He answered them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
from Matthew 19:11
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory:
from Matthew 13:11
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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
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
from II Corinthians 1:12
My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations;
from Job 23:10 · a strong link
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and complete what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
from James 1:2 · 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:
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
from I Corinthians 5:7
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
from Exodus 13:6
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you shall do no work in it.
from Exodus 12:15
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Romans 8:2 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