Marriage

Not Now, But Hereafter!

Job 21:29-31

… The world sinned; they ate, they drank, they married, and were given in marriage; they forgot the Most High. The fountains of the great deep gave forth their …

Sacred Memories

Jeremiah 51:50

… Who has not lost a friend, a child, a wife, a husband, a beloved one of some sort? Well, when you take out your handkerchief because the tears …

"This Year Also"

Luke 13:6

… you prepared, now, to hear the midnight cry and to enter into the marriage supper? The Judgment and all that will follow is surely the heritage of every …

Fragrant Spices From the Mountains of Myrrh

… hosts; and what king will undervalue his own inheritance? What loving husband will despise his own wife? Let others call the Church what they may, Jesus does not …

Prepare To Meet Your God

Amos 4:12

… No marriage bells ever rang out a sweeter or more joyous melody than these glad words as they were heard amid the myrtle bowers and palm groves of …

'Do I Love the Lord or Not?'

John 21:17

… What would the wife say if her husband should ask, "Do you love me?" And if, after she had given a fond assurance of affection, he should repeat …

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… What if I have to rend some fond connection? Jesus, You are better to me than husband, wife, or child. If it must be so that she who …

Good Cheer for Christians

Isaiah 25:6

… He spoke of the marriage supper of the king, who said, "My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready." And it did not seem …

Faith

Hebrews 11:6

… on his knees, and poured out his soul in tears, and both husband and wife were converted. That negro could not have done this without faith. Without faith …

The World On Fire

2 Peter 3:10

… His wife bade him come back, but he said, "The city is to be destroyed, and I must be away." His children clung about his garments to hold …

How Faith Comes

John 4:39-42

… The mother tells her child, the husband tells his wife, the brother tells his sister and, more often, still, the sister tells her brother. One man communicates it …

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… a wife of whoredoms; for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord,” and he did so; and the children begotten by this: marriage, were made …

Love and Jealousy

Solomon 8:6

… of disciples to their Lord be stronger than the love of the husband to his wife, of the mother to her child, or of friend to friend—a …

The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission

John 4:27-30

… Let no man converse with a woman in the streets, not even with his own wife." Women were thought to be unfit for profound religious instruction and altogether …

The Heavan of Heavan

Revelation 22:4

… Do you regret that your friends have departed? Do you lament that wife, and husband, and child, and father, and grandparents have all entered into their rest? Be …

God's Own Gospel Call

Isaiah 55:3

… He will cast about you the bands of His love and will betroth you unto Himself in a marriage union which shall never be dissolved. Do you enquire …

Railings

Deuteronomy 22:8

… You are going on right joyously, everything is "merry as a marriage bell," but, all of a sudden you are brought to a dead still. You kick against …

The Forerunner

Hebrews 6:20

… But the music of the sentence, "Jesus saves me," is like that of a marriage peal! And, as long as I am a sinner, the name of Jesus …

The Ministry Of Gratitude

Luke 4:39

… or, "The Lord gave him spiritual life in answer to my prayer." May husband, wife, children, servants—all received healing from "the beloved Physician." May our whole household …

The Singing Pilgrim

Psalm 119:54

… soul? The truest and best Bridegroom with whom we are joined in a marriage union which death cannot sever? Where, I say, is the Bridegroom of our souls …

Joy in Place of Sorrow

John 16:22

… You cannot love your wife, your child with a most lawful and laudable love, but one of these days it will be most expensive love—when the loved …

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… Unconverted and yet unconcerned; exposed to the wrath of God, but fearless, as though all were peace; on the edge of perdition, but merry as a marriage bell …

The Centurion—Or An Exhortation To The Virtuous

Luke 7:4-9

… their children? Or a husband who has been pleading for his wife? Or a wife who has been making intercession for her husband? God only knows what heart …

The Way Everlasting

Psalm 139:24

… land where they neither marry nor are given in marriage and where, consequently, there shall be no wife nor children for whom to toil and no avocation for …

A Vexed Soul Comforted

Job 27:2

… You forgot Him when everything went merry as a marriage peal—it may be that you will remember Him, now that your children are dying, or your father …

A Very Early Bible Society

2 Chronicles 34:15

… What better marriage gift than a family Bible? What better present for an aged person than one of the large-print Bibles? Oh, what gladness you might give …

"And We Are"—a Jewel from the Revised Version

1 John 3:1

… his wife. He pleads that he be permitted to not introduce her into the noble family to which he belongs and so he keeps the marriage in the …

The Love of God and the Patience of Christ

2 Thessalonians 3:5

… We are delighted with the viands of the marriage banquet—we eat the fat and we drink the sweet. What else would you expect from starving souls admitted …

Tokens For Good

Psalm 86:17

… Even the devil has stood abashed in the presence of the favored ones when God has dressed them in their marriage robes! He has known that they were …

Sympathy and Song

Romans 12:15

… but other friends—brothers and sisters—in some cases a husband—in more cases, still, a godly wife—in some a Christian nurse. Such have had anxieties and …

'No Root in Themselves'

Mark 4:17

… He had not been attending with us long before there was an alteration, even in the rooms in which he lived, and in the appearance of his wife …

The King's Sharp Arrows

Psalm 45:5

… And that is not the marriage of Solomon with Pharaoh's daughter—only the strangest and most whimsical fancy could ever have found Pharaoh's daughter either in …

The Meek and Lowly One

Matthew 11:28-30

… Even Esther, his beloved wife, is afraid to draw near, and must put her life in her hand, if she comes into the presence of the king uncalled …

To Those Who Are "Almost Persuaded"

Acts 26:28

… She had been originally married to her own uncle, Herod, and was therefore both his niece and his wife. And her second marriage was soon broken by her …

Sudden Sorrow

Jeremiah 4:20

… without doubt, torn in pieces." You cannot be sure of child, or wife, or husband. The fondest love may be torn from your side and the dearest babe …

The Oil of Gladness

Psalm 45:7

… More than the bride longs for the marriage day do we expect the bridal feast of heaven, but of all the dainties on that royal table there will …

Why the Heavenly Robes are White

Revelation 7:14

… happy spirits have put on their bridal robes and are ready for the marriage supper of the Lamb. Though they are waiting for the Resurrection, yet are they …

Departed Saints Yet Living

Luke 20:37

… I cannot forget old John Ryland's answer to his wife—"John," she said, "will you know me in Heaven?" "Betty," he replied, "I have known you well …

Unstaggering Faith

Romans 4:19-21

… We read that he laughed—laughed with holy joy at the thought of so great and unexpected a blessing! It startled also his wife Sarah. She did, however …

Our Lord's Transcendent Greatness

Micah 5:4

… You cannot do better, good woman, when the Lord blesses your husband, than to try to get a blessing, too. They could not long pray in quiet—and …