Samuel Bagster's Famous Daily Devotions for Morning and Evening, August 1. GospelWeb.net

August 9

MORNING

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. Song 4:7

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Isa. 1:5, 6

We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Isa. 64:6

I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. Rom. 7:18

Ye are washed.... ye are sanctified.... ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. I Cor. 6:11

The King's daughter is all glorious within. Psa. 45:13

Perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. Ezek. 16:14

Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us. Psa. 90:17

These are they which ... have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Rev. 7:14

A glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but ... holy and without blemish. Eph. 5:27

Ye are complete in him. Col. 2:10


EVENING

Broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jer. 2:13

Eve ... bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. Gen. 4:1

Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. The LORD scattered them. Gen. 11:4, 8

Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the LORD. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Gen. 13:11, 10, 13

I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Ecc. 1:17, 18

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I gathered me also silver and gold. Then I looked on all, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecc. 2:4, 8, 11

If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. John 7:37

He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. Psa. 107:9

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Col. 3:2

August 9