Marriage

The Sheep Before the Shearers

… The husband, or perhaps the wife, is removed, little children are taken away, property is shorn off, and health is gone. Sometimes the shears cut off the man …

Rejoicing and Remembering

Solomon 1:4

… a great joy to us! Yes, Lord, we will remember Your love—husband and wife, sons and daughters, and some of us can say grandchildren, too—we will …

The Value and Rank of the Believer

Isaiah 43:4

… It may be by marriage that the relationship is made, but it is all the same. Honor comes with honorable connections. Since, then, we are related to God …

On Spiritualizing

… labouring man and his wife from his chapel, He missed them again and again, Sunday after Sunday, and one Monday, meeting the husband in the street, he said …

'That King Ahaz'

2 Chronicles 28:22

… which brings them employment than as a calamity which takes away the husband from the wife, or the parent from the children. I do not speak without my …

Holding Fast Our Profession

Hebrews 10:23

… It had taken you weeks even to tell it to your wife or your husband! The dear soul, for once, seemed to grow into a very dragon when …

"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"

2 Chronicles 24:2

… He even seems to have been guided by him, to some extent, in the matter of his marriage. He was plastic under his uncle's hands and he …

Young Man, Is This For You?

Luke 7:11-17

… And yet more so if that child is a mother's boy, her only boy, and she a desolate woman, from whom her husband has been snatched away …

The Wicked Man’s Life, Funeral, and Epitaph

Ecclesiastes 8:10

… A dead child is a pang indeed to a mother’s heart; a dead wife or a dead husband, to the heart of the bereaved must be sorrowful …

A Leap Year Sermon

1 Corinthians 15:8

… Up in one of the northern counties of England there was a woman, a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose prayer went up continually for her husband …

Deliverance From the Pit

Job 33:24

… Perhaps he would not mention it to anyone but his wife. When he wished to make her heart glad by sharing the fortune with her, he said to …

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

… Then, dear Friend, you must certainly have a wedding garment! How can you go in unto the marriage feast not having on a wedding garment? And here you …

A Tempted Savior—Our Best Succor

Hebrews 2:18

… are a husband and you say, "My thorn in the flesh is too sharp, for it is an ungodly wife." Or you are a wife which is more …

The Trial of Your Faith

1 Peter 1:7

… You that have no riches may yet find a test in your daily mercies—your domestic comfort, that loving wife, those dear children—all these may tempt you …

'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'

2 Kings 3:16-18

… Many of you are praying for a husband or a wife. God has never blessed your husband or wife, but He has remembered others out of regard to …

A Delicious Experience

Hebrews 4:3

… All is not right between God and my soul." A husband, if perhaps he has had a difference with his wife, will not feel happy in going to …

Vessels Of Mercy—A Sermon Of Self-Examination

Romans 9:23

… There is room for you here at the marriage feast—you shivering beggar clothed with the rags of sin! Come, the voice of Mercy bids you. The arms …

An Objection and an Answer

Galatians 5:6

… You go home, Sir, and growl at your wife. You go home, Madam, to be snappish with your servant. You go home, housemaid, to be slovenly in your …

The Blood

Exodus 12:13

… Brooks says, “A husband that loves his wife will, perhaps, often give her jewels and rings; but suppose she should sit down and begin to think of her …

The Sight of Iniquity

Habakkuk 1:3

… When I entered the house, there was the husband horribly drunk. He had got his wife up in a corner and, with all his might, was trying to …

A Procession of Cross-bearers

Mark 10:21

… Or if you had had a coarse, drunken husband who hated the very name of Jesus, I wonder whether you would have been able to bear it, as …

Tender Words Of Terrible Apprehension!

Psalm 9:17

… it be! There shall be a marriage between Him and your soul, and you, with Him, shall sit down at the marriage supper in the Glory of the …

Rahab

Hebrews 11:31

… good husband or a good wife. Away with your Christianity if it makes you a bad child. A domineering, surly father—a rebellious child, a gossiping wife, an …

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… But you clearly see there must have been a special love intended in the husband towards the wife and so there must be a special love in Christ …

Saints Guarded From Stumbling

… A working man among skeptical companions, a young girl in a book-folding warehouse, a wife who has an ungodly husband—as soon as they come out boldly …

The Christ-Given Rest

Matthew 11:28

… Go home, dear wife, with a restful heart. Perhaps your husband will meet you with an angry word. Be so restful that you will not mind it! Go …

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… Wife! never cease to pray for your unconverted husband. Husband! never stop your supplication till you see your wife converted. And, O fathers and mothers! have you no …

Our Gifts and How To Use Them

2 Timothy 1:6

… for the children? Have I labored all I ought for my wife's conversion—my husband's conversion? Then about the neighborhood—is there nothing more that I …

The Cast-Off Sash

Jeremiah 13:1-11

… Glory, or a Royal Diadem, or, better still, the Bride, the Lamb's Wife. The people were compared to a linen sash with which the Prophet, in the …

A Call To Prayer and Testimony

Isaiah 62:6

… He says, "You that are the Lord's remembrancers, take you no rest." A wife said that she would pray for her husband for 10 years and if …

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… Hell? Remember, another figure which is used, is the union of the husband with the wife. Marriages that are made in Heaven are cemented not by gold or …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… attack, Do you not know such? they are your own children, your husband, your wife, some of your own family, and as you look upon them, though you …

King's Gardens

Nehemiah 3:15

… But, if your heart is His, oh, keep it for your Beloved! Do not give the keys to anyone else! The love of husband, wife and child—each …

A Summons To Battle

2 Samuel 11:1

… captivity! Your children may still be in captivity to Satan! Your husband still a prisoner, your wife not yet emancipated. Your brother, or neighbor, or sister still in …

Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence

Proverbs 14:26

… The friend told her that this loaf of bread was bought for her husband, but her husband was not well and he was unable to eat it because …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… a clear instance in the wife of Phinehas in particular, 1Sa 4:19-20 , who dying, made no mention of her husband. Arthus Jackson. Verse 64. The daughter …

Sunshine in the Heart

Psalms 37:4

… Well may we pray, “In all time of our wealth deliver us.” We are somewhat like a foolish wife who, when her husband giveth her jewels and rings …

The Perseverance of Faith

Matthew 15:28

… I have no doubt that her husband had praised her. What good husband is there who does not praise his wife, even as it is written of the …

Reform

2 Chronicles 31:1

… Well said the Scotch woman, when her husband asked her, on her return from the house of God sooner than usual, “Wife, is the sermon all done?” “Nay …

A New Year's Wish

Philippians 4:19

… Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the Prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant, my husband, is dead and you know that …