Marriage

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… And doubtless that is just the opinion which a husband forms of his wife and a wife of her husband where the marriage is such as it should …

"The Marriage of the Lamb"

Revelation 19:7

… for the marriage of the Lamb is come and His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen …

Remember Lot's Wife

Luke 17:32

… Lot's wife had also shared her husband's privileges. Her husband had not forgotten his association with Abraham and he could not have failed to communicate this …

Morning, July 22

Je 3:14

Morning, July 22 Go To Evening Reading “I am married unto you.” Jeremiah 3:14 Christ Jesus is joined unto his people in marriage-union. In love he …

Pure Fun

… The earliest marriage service conducted by Mr. Spurgeon, of which the record has been preserved, was that of Pastor T. W. Medhurst and his first wife, Miss M …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… The pointing finger guided my eyes to the chapter on “Marriage,” of which the opening sentences ran thus, — “Seek a good wife of thy God, for she is …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Concluded)

… and His chosen people, — that marriage union which is never to end. Christ has honoured this institution by comparing Himself to the Husband of the Church, and by …

God, the Husband of His People

Jeremiah 31:32

… In addition to that, the God who had become their Husband protected them as the husband does his wife. He chased the Amalekites before them! He allowed no …

"Two Immutable Things"

Ezekiel 16:8

… you! If there was any beauty in the wife who is mentioned in this parable, it was after the marriage. But before she was cast out, she was …

Bands of Love; or, Union to Christ

… but when they live together, shall Jonathan forget his David? A wife may, when her husband is upon a journey, abide many days without holding converse with him …

Number 2500—or, "Entrance and Exclusion"

Matthew 25:10

… heavenly marriage feast, as part of that wondrous bride, the Lamb's wife, who is then to find her bliss forever consummated with her glorious Husband! What a …

The Climax of God's Love No. 2571

Hosea 2:16

… Further, that name, Ishi, "my Husband," is a name of love. There is a mutual engagement between the true husband and wife, they complement of each other. So …

A Drama in Five Acts

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

… In another scene we observe domestic happiness and prosperity, a loving husband and a happy wife. Yet, further on in the performance, rosy children are climbing the father …

Early Wedded Life (Continued)

Sometimes we have seen a model marriage, founded on pure love, and cemented in mutual esteem. Therein, the husband acts as a tender head ; and the wife, as …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… It is her husband's house, and she is her husband's; us the text puts it—"thy wife", and "thy house"; but by her loving care her …

Psalm 45

Psalm 45

… The husband is the head of the wife; the love he bears her does not lessen but strengthen her obligation to obey. The church must reverence Jesus, and …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… There would be no parallel whatever between the husband's love to the wife and Christ's love to the Church if there were not a specialty about …

The Matchless Mystery

Ephesians 5:30

… As is your relation, O woman, to your husband, and as is your relation, O man, to your wife, such is the relation which exists between you, as …

An Urgent Request for an Immediate Answer

Genesis 24:49

… There is a remarkable parallel between Eliezer seeking a wife for Isaac and the ministers of Christ seeking souls for Jesus. It is something more than an allegory …

"Without Carefulness"

1 Corinthians 7:32

… husband says if he could get a little of the Mary into you, and a little of the Martha out of you, you would be a perfect wife …

"Forever With The Lord"

Philippians 1:23

… There is a wife here, perhaps, and her husband has accepted an appointment in India. He has been gone a long time and the years of his forced …

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Revelation 19:9

… for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen …

No Compromise

Genesis 24:5-8

… The marriage of the heir should be a joyful event. It was an honourable thing for the servant to be entrusted with the finding of a wife for …

Early Wedded Life

… Let the husband love his wife as he loves himself, and a little better, for she is his better half. He should feel, " If there's only one …

A Jealous God

Exodus 34:14

… When the wife of a Persian noble had been invited to the coronation of Darius, the question was asked of her by her husband—“Did you not think …

Unbelievers Upbraided

Mark 16:14

… I have repeatedly used in this connection the figure of a child's trust in a parent, a husband's trust in his wife and the wife's …

A Home for the Fatherless

… Hillyard and two friends of mine — a husband and wife, — were sitting together here in London; and, in the course of their conversation, Mrs. Hillyard said to my …

The Saint One With His Savior

1 Corinthians 6:17

… Sometimes we have seen a model marriage, founded in pure love and cemented in mutual esteem. There the husband acts as a tender head, and the wife, as …

A Song Among the Lilies

Solomon 2:16

… the husband of our souls, who is ours to have and to hold, for better for worse, for life and for death, by a bond of marriage union …

God's Foreknowledge of Man's Sin

Isaiah 48:8

… Had I known how she would constantly make my house unhappy, there certainly would have been no marriage tie between us." But no husband could say that unless …

The Beginning of Miracles Which Jesus Did

John 2:11

… To a marriage feast He invites us now. At a glorious marriage supper all will end. The story of our Bible ends like all well-told tales, with …

'The True Sayings of God'

Revelation 19:9

… His sufferings—"For the marriage of the Lamb [See Sermon #2096, Volume 35—"THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB.] is come, and His wife has made herself ready...Blessed …

The Interest Of Christ And His People In Each Other

Solomon 2:16

… He is the Husband, Believers are the spouse. There is nothing that a man has that is so much his property as his own wife, except it be …

'Oh, How He Loves!'

John 11:36

… He is the glorious Husband and His Church is His bride, the Lamb's wife. And there is nothing that He has which is not also hers even …

Gadding About

Jeremiah 2:36

… In the first place, she should abide in dependence upon her husband's care. It would be looked upon as a very strange thing if a wife should …

Members Of Christ

Ephesians 5:30

… With the true husband, his wife is himself. The Scripture says, "He that loves his wife loves himself," and I believe that Christ considers that when He loves …

Choice Portions

Deuteronomy 32:9

… It is not only the affection of the husband to the wife, but seeing that some men are changeable, and their love grows cold, the Lord selects that …

The Bride and Her Ornaments—the Sin of Forgetting God

Jeremiah 2:32

… as much if they had forgotten their dearest friends—if the husband had forgotten his wife, or the mother her child—but here are favored men and women …

Sarah and Her Daughters

Isaiah 51:2

… It is ill when there is a difference, a radical difference, between husband and wife—when one fears God and the other has no regard for Him. What …

The Rose and the Lily

Solomon 2:1

… Now, in the marriage estate it is a great assistance to happiness if the wife has high ideas of her husband. In the marriage union between the soul …