Marriage

The Reception of Sinners

Luke 15:22

… At Christmas seasons and upon marriage days and harvest homes, men ordinarily express their joy by bountiful provision. So also does the father, in this wondrous parable, exhibit …

God Incarnate, The End Of Fear

Luke 2:10

… Few, indeed, were those happy minds who, like Manoah's wife, could reason in a more cheerful style, "If the Lord had meant to destroy us He would …

Dying Daily

1 Corinthians 15:31

… I say our souls shall come back to their bodies to a new marriage. The spirit and the body shall be knit together once again, so that our …

The Empty Seat

1 Samuel 20:27

… Of a Sister, the wife of an earnest and well-beloved Deacon it must be said—her place is empty. And of a Brother who had been her …

A Sermon for a Winter's Evening

John 18:18

… Another has married a wife and, therefore, he cannot come. They are eager for the bread which perishes, but they make light of the meat which endures the …

The Sad Wonder

Mark 6:6

… will not be heard—the husband afraid that the conversion of his wife will never occur! The wife fearful that that swearing husband of hers will not, after …

Our Sympathizing High Priest

Hebrews 5:7-10

… would trust a father or a brother, or as a fond wife confides in the husband of her love. II. Let us now spend a few moments in …

Bringing Sinners to the Savior

Mark 9:17-20

… was a working man, whose wife, being suddenly taken ill, needed a certain Christian woman to come and attend her. The husband went to her house to try …

Hideous Discovery

Mark 7:20-23

… Adulteries, as violations of the marriage vow, shake the very foundations of family life. Fornications, which today are winked at as though they were scarcely offenses, defile two …

A Greater Than Solomon

Luke 11:31

… Suppose I were to meet a woman, and I knew her husband to be a very wealthy man, and that he loved her very much, and she were …

Now, A Sermon for Young Men and Young Women

Ezekiel 12:27

… and not, as it really is, a day most calm, most bright— the marriage of the soul with Heaven. Let every unconverted person remember that God knows what …

Good Reasons for a Good Resolution

Isaiah 61:10

… which is, perhaps, the sweetest of all, that is, the joy of heavenly marriage—"as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments." "A bridegroom!" Then it is true that …

The Soul's Desertion

Song 5:6

… Ah, but if a wife loves her husband, and he is gone, we may quote the old song— "There is nae luck about the house When thegudeman'sawa …

The Lamb—The Light

Revelation 21:23

… We need here the associations of friendship and of family love, but they are neither married nor are given in marriage there. Whatever comfort they may derive from …

The Inner Side of Conversion

Jeremiah 31:18-20

… Too often is marriage entered on frivolously. And yet, if one could see all the bearings of it, for good or for evil, one would judge the fullest …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… Do not go home with that sorry tale to your wife and children and tell them that God is not faithful to you. Wait till tomorrow, at any …

Fat Things, Full of Marrow

Isaiah 54:7-10

… of a husband against his wife. "Your Maker is your Husband." Yes, good Lord, You may be angry with me, but You are my Husband, still. You may …

Questions of the Day and THE Question of the Day

Matthew 22:42

… The marriage banquet was spread, the guests were invited—they would not come—and therefore special messengers were sent to compel as many as they could find to …

All and All in All

Colossians 3:11

… then we are told to expect the announcement, "The marriage of the Lamb is come and His wife has made herself ready." What does all this mean but …

Unpurchasable Love

Solomon 8:7

… Many a marriage would have been a very happy one if there had been a tithe as much love as there was wealth and, sometimes, love will come …

Men Chosen—Fallen Angels Rejected

Hebrews 2:16

… that husband should live in palace, and that wife would live in cottage; it were not meet that husband should be arrayed in gorgeous robes, and wife in …

Divine Gentleness Acknowledged

Psalm 18:35

… There was gentleness even about the character of his wife Michal. The father would destroy, but the daughter saves her husband's life. When David at last fled …

Saving Knowledge

John 4:10

… Like the dying saint who had forgotten his wife, forgotten his children, forgotten his own name and yet smiled sweetly when they asked him if he remembered Christ …

Apart

Zechariah 12:12-14

… But a man's own wife does not make a mistake about who is her husband! His child knows which is his father and does not mistake another …

Hezekiah And The Ambassadors—Or, Vainglory Rebuked

2 Kings 20:12

… But if it were the wife of your bosom it would sting you to the heart, or if your child should slander you it would cut you to …

Jonah's Object-lessons

Jonah 4:6-8

… So, the Lord has prepared your comforts, prepared your prosperity, prepared your wife, prepared your children, prepared your friends! Therefore bow your heads in gratitude to Him and …

A Sore Grievance

Jeremiah 50:6

… There is much idolatry—and if you love son or daughter more than Christ, you are not worthy of Him! If you love husband or wife more than …

The Holy Child, Jesus

Acts 4:30

… As a man leaves his father and mother and cleaves unto his wife and they, two, become one flesh, so has He left the Glory of His Father …

Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life

2 Chronicles 33:10

… How often has a wife beckoned her husband to Heaven! And the dear children of London who die so numerously, are among the ablest missionaries of the Cross …

A Warning to Waverers

James 1:6

… It is not infrequently my lot, as pastor, to be consulted by some persons about marriage. I am very careful as to what I say upon that matter …

An All-important Question

John 9:35

… in the Son of God?" Wife, you have nothing to do with your husband in this matter and, husband, you and your wife must be set apart in …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… When the purse is bare, the wife sickly, and the children numerous, the preacher must speak if the church does not properly provide for him; but to be …

Dilemma and Deliverance

Psalm 9:10

… When your wife lay sick, and there were three little ones in the house and she approached to death, and you cried in agony to God and said …

Joy, Joy Forever

Psalm 5:11

… May you not be guilty of making them so? There is an unkind, morose, wicked, drinking husband and he says, "My wife's religion makes her miserable." No …

The Axe at the Root—A Testimony Against Puseyite Idolatry

John 4:23-24

… This was probably instituted by God himself when he clothed Adam and his wife with skins of beasts; it has been thought that he then indicated to them …

The Main Matter

John 20:30

… The good man never did anything in his life except that he married a wife and took a holiday and traveled through Switzerland and went to Venice and …

Christ's Loneliness and Ours

John 16:31

… True, His judge's wife tries to persuade her husband to have nothing to do with Him and her vacillating husband offers to liberate Him if the mob …

Fear Not

Revelation 1:17

… to Him as confidently as a child to its parent, or a wife to her husband. It is one of Satan's temptations to make us afraid of …

The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered

2 Corinthians 5:1

… vital, essential, indissoluble, tender marriage union that separation is impossible! As no man among us would ever be content to see his wife in prison if he could …

Christ's Joy and Ours

John 15:11

… Perhaps a better illustration may be found in the nearer and dearer relationship of the wife and the husband. The wife, if she has pleased her husband, is …