Marriage

Timely Reflections

Romans 13:11

… Some of you have a dear wife or a husband and they have been looking for you. I do not doubt they will know you. It will be …

"Return! Return!"

Jeremiah 18:11

… I could quote instances where the husband lives who, I thought, would have gone long ago—and the wife who seemed the more healthy of the two—is …

The Preacher’s Private Prayer

… He prays as a husband and as a father; he strives to make his family devotions a model for his flock; and if the fire on the altar …

Figs and Olives

James 3:12

… I need not multiply instances of this helpful fellowship beyond just reminding you of how often, in God's mercy, a Christian husband and wife are the counterpart …

Rahab's Faith

Hebrews 11:31

… But this man was one day met by a friend, who said to him, “Where is your wife?” “Wife?” said he to him. “What! does she not come …

Chastisement—Now And Afterward

Hebrews 12:11

… A wife says, "My dear husband was called away just when the children needed most his care." And we say, "Here am I, laid aside upon a bed …

Overwhelming Obligations

Psalm 116:12

… to the Lord?" Never mind your neighbor, your brother, your sister, your husband, your wife, or anybody else just now. If you are a saved soul, the question …

Stewards

… Alas! too many young men destroy our hopes; they are extravagant in their expenses, make an unfortunate marriage, fall into ill humours, wander after novel opinions, give way …

Power With God

Genesis 32:28

… wife. It was just about daybreak and when she saw him, he said to her, "I have been all the night wrestling with God for your husband's …

A Vision of the King

Isaiah 33:17

… You have to go home to a sick household, perhaps to a persecuting husband or an ungodly wife. You are coming with us to the Communion Table and …

The Centurion's Faith and Humility

Luke 7:6-8

… Oh, if your friend, your child, your wife, your husband, is a very devil incarnate—or if there are seven devils, or a legion of devils within him …

"They Were Tempted"

Hebrews 11:37

… The dear Sister that was everything, before, must now be made the subject of jeers and the husband or the wife, however much beloved, is not spared. This …

Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin

Matthew 9:2

… It blazed furiously, but he and his wife and the most of his children escaped. Judge of their horror when they counted them over, to discover that one …

Blessed Promises For Dying Outcasts

Jeremiah 30:17

… He takes away the delight of their eyes with a stroke—the child, the husband, the wife, or the friend is laid low—for the Lord will fill …

The Honored Guest

Luke 19:6

… Did their wife or their child mention the Cross of Christ, or faith in His precious blood, they would either sneer and ridicule with unseemly jest, or else …

The Recorders

1 Chronicles 16:4

… The husband to whom you have been married these 10 years, or the child that has nestled in your bosom two years, or the friend that communed with …

Our Last Journey

Job 16:22

… To our brothers, children, husband, or wife, we shall not return. To nothing that is done under the sun shall we return! Soul, unsaved Soul, to the land …

Choice Food for Pilgrims to Canaan

Exodus 33:14

… which a wife or a child was called upon humbly to knock at the door before she could come into the majestic presence of her husband or her …

The Story of a Runaway Slave

… The husband is the head of the wife, but when renewed by Grace he is not at all the head of the wife as some husbands are. The …

Life's Inevitable Burden

Galatians 6:6

… Lamentation for sin is a thing for one's own chamber—the husband apart, and the wife apart—the daughter apart and the mother apart. Into confession in …

Early Religious Impressions

… My father felt that he might safely go about his Master’s business while his dear wife was caring so well for the spiritual interests of the boys …

The Seed by the Wayside

Luke 8:5

… So, if you want to be the means of blessing to a man's wife, it may be that you will have to try to win her husband …

Why They Leave Us

John 17:24

… The wife says, "That is mine." "No" saith the caviller, "it is your husband's." Her answer is, "and therefore it is mine." In that blessed union into …

The Welcome Visitor

John 11:28-32

… Forget awhile, dear Husband, that sick wife of yours towards whom your heart so naturally flies. Forget, Beloved, just now, all that you have suffered, all that you …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… Thou art to love thy wife, O husband. Thou canst not love her too much, except in one case, if thou shouldst love her before God, and prefer …

The Fruitless Vine

Ezekiel 15:1-2

… A deal of use he was ever to me! He made me an infidel, sir!” And his wife, “Well, what do you think of this good husband of …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… Sankey, or will your own precentor have charge? Either will suit me. " Remember me to your good wife, and accept of my thanks for your letter of " Yours …

A Frail Leaf

Job 13:25

… She was an Eastern wife and her husband had been foolish enough to have a second mistress in the house. The woman of whom we speak, a holy …

Love's Logic

1 John 4:19

… Oh, it is a very sweet thing to feel that we have the love of a dear wife, or a kind husband; and there is much sweetness in …

Standing and Singing

Psalm 26:12

… Do you say, "To whom shall I tell it?" Go, husband, tell it to your wife! My good Sister, tell it to your husband! Tell it to your …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… I think I have my wife, husband, and dearest relations, as if I had none; I weep for outward losses, as if I wept not; rejoice in comforts …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… Your child may be a hornet to you—your wife, your husband, your brother, the dearest friend you have—may be a daily cross to you. And, though …

“Helensburgh House” and Garden

… My husband's whole life was "an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity ; " and if, in any of …

The Importunate Widow

Luke 18:1-8

… The bringing in of that unconverted husband is to lie upon the wife's heart night and day till she gets it! She is not to take even …

For the Sick and Afflicted

Job 34:31

… No; he did not like to disturb Rachel, and Laban did not like to disturb her either— a favourite wife and daughter must not be inconvenienced. She may …

The Cause and Effect of Heart Trouble

John 14:27

… There are some who actually quarrel with God over the loss of husband, or wife, or child, or parent, or friend. Now, in such a quarrel as that …

Psalm 100

Psalm 100

… solemnity, but a cheery gladsome exhortation, as though we were bidden to a marriage feast. Come before his presence with singing. We ought in worship to realise the …

Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing

2 Samuel 3:39

… Having engaged in a quarrel with Ishbosheth, on account of Abner's desire to take to wife a concubine of Saul, he at once resented the interference of …

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… Perhaps the Lord may suddenly take away from you the dearest object of your heart's affection—your husband or your wife—can you trust Him, then? The …

'Accepted in the Beloved'

Ephesians 1:6

… There is a living unity between Christ and His people, as between the husband and the wife, as between the branch and the stem. We are one with …