Marriage

Vanity Deprecated

Psalm 119:37

… I heard of a converted wife who despaired of her husband's salvation, but she used to be always very kind to him. She said, "I am afraid …

A Voice from the Hartley Colliery

Job 14:14

… Godly wife, thy Christian husband, though he perished by the fatal "damp," shall live again, and thou shalt sit with him before the eternal throne. He finished his …

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… Born when Abraham and his wife were past age—born by the power of God's Spirit, according to promise. 24. Which things are an allegory: for these …

The Hand of God in the History of a Man

Job 7:1

… My husband is gone, ah, God, what shall I do? Where shall my widowed heart find sympathy? Still he has been taken away at the right time. The …

An Anxious Enquiry for a Beloved Son

2 Samuel 18:29

… My husband died and left me a widow with five or six of them. I worked hard morning and night, as you know I must have done, to …

Declension from First Love

Revelation 2:4

… they have called at your houses, when they have asked the wife—“What is your husband?” “Ah!” she has said, “he is a godly man; he cannot come …

'He Blessed Him There'

Genesis 32:29

… You may lose the dear husband who now is your strength, or the beloved wife who now is your comfort, but He will bless you there! You may …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… It is a very dreadful thing to have a dumb friend—a very painful thing to have a wife who never spoke with you or a husband who …

A Golden Prayer

John 12:28

… year, for we have neither an immortal child, nor an immortal husband, nor an immortal wife, nor an immortal friend and, therefore, some of these may die within …

The Devil's Last Throw

Luke 9:42

… Perhaps it is a wife who cannot bear that her husband should remain out of Christ, or a husband who pines till his spouse is turned unto the …

The Evidence of Our Lord's Wounds

John 20:27

… Prostrate with pain, unable to enjoy any comfort, unable even to sleep, I have seen the soul of the believer as happy as if all sounds were marriage …

Our Great Shepherd Finding the Sheep

Luke 15:4

… If they believed that repenting sinners might afterwards be lost, they would not ring the marriage bells just yet, but they would wait a while to see how …

Sanctified Sorrow

Isaiah 54:11

… For your Maker is your Husband—-Bound to you by the dearest, closest and most enduring ties 5-7. The LORD ofHosts is His name; andyour Redeemer, the …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… take away his battlements, for they are not the Lord’s.” There is a husband. He coats upon his wife, as he should do. The Scripture telleth us …

The Snare of the Fowler

Psalm 91:3

… From the wife and mother, her husband and all her children were now taken away. Reason returned, and she was led to reflection. She saw her dreadful backslidings …

The Lord’s Hand behind the Maid’s Mistake

… why this gleam of sunlight and that roar of tempest; why here a marriage and there a funeral; why sometimes a harp and at other times a sackbut …

Confession With The Mouth

Romans 10:10

… You will be unfashionable! What is it to be fashionable? You will be despised by those who love you! Do you love husband or wife more than Christ …

A New Year's Retrospect And Prospect

Psalm 10:17

… I cannot hear the wife's desires as she inwardly cries, "Lord, save my husband!" Neither can I hear that Sister's longing as she says within her …

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… Many a wife has lured her husband to Christ. You cannot drag them, but you may draw them. All that you can do, in your daily life, and …

India’s Ills and England’s Sorrows

Jeremiah 9:1

… to your house, weep for your family, for your servants, for your husband, for your wife, for your children. Weep, weep, cease not weeping, till God hath renewed …

Chiding and Cheering

John 14:9

… Perhaps your own wife has been converted. Your brother has seen the Lord. Your sister has come to know Christ as her Savior. And so long has He …

Fresh Grace Confidently Expected

Psalm 92:10

… oil! He who made you a good wife will help you to bear well the trial of losing your husband. He who made you a dutiful child will …

Joining the Church

2 Corinthians 8:5

… of Jesus Christ! You are a husband—you have no business to be a bad-tempered, domineering tyrant to your wife! If you are, you ought not to …

The Nail in a Sure Place

Isaiah 22:23-25

… Such is the order and constitution of the commonwealth of manhood, that when the husband sins, the household must feel much of the smart. Oftentimes, for wife and …

Christ's Past and Present Witnesses

John 15:27

… One man's wife knows all about that change. She had a black eye last year, but she never gets one now. She is as happy as the …

A New Creation

Revelation 21:5

… comfort is in trying to forget him." "Yes," says a husband here, "I have prayed for my wife so many times that I feel tempted to give it …

Marvellous Increase.–Facts and Figures

… wife to me, that I may hear what she says about you." The woman has come, and I have asked her, " What do you think of your husband …

Comfort for the Desponding

Job 29:2

… Doth a wife ask her husband to be moderately loving? Doth a parent expect his child to be moderately obedient? Do you seek to have your servants moderately …

Pride the Destroyer

Habakkuk 2:4

… in your last minutes! Would you leave your wife, would you leave your child, would you leave your husband, if you saw any of these dear ones in …

Confirming the Witness of Christ

1 Corinthians 1:6

… Many of you have loved ones under the sod—your mother, father, husband, or wife. You thought your heart would break when you lost your parents, but when …

The Last Enemy Destroyed

1 Corinthians 15:26

… Now remember that all your friends—your wife, your husband, your child, your kinsfolk—are all mortal. That makes you sad. Well, it may prevent your being more …

Dr. Rippon’s Prayer and its Answer

… He was taken suddenly ill, and saying to his wife, “! am going, ” he laid himself down upon the bed, and expired in the forty-third year of his …

The Sphere Of Instrumentality

John 11:39

… Or thus—"Lord, You know Your servant's heart breaks because my wife, or my husband, is still unconverted." Or, you may put it thus—"O Savior, You …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… Now, if they love God, they will not love father nor mother, nor husband, nor brother, nor sister in comparison with Him. And though Christians will ever be …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… been fulfilled in him? Why was the husband struck down when the little children were so dependent? Why was the wife removed when a mother's care was …

'Go in Peace'

Luke 7:50

… thinking to yourself, "Alas, I am going home to an ungodly husband"? Never mind, dear wife, "go in peace." "Oh, but, tomorrow I have to go out among …

Mealtime In The Corn Fields

Ruth 2:14

… Is it not so? Does not the wife share with the husband? All those promises which are, "yes, and Amen in Christ" shall be yours—no, they all …

Personal Service

Psalm 116:16

… I should wish you to see one poor wife, her face all bleeding, where a brutal and degrading husband ha. been striking her; I should like you to …

Owl or Eagle?

Psalm 102:6

… that he doubts whether his father loves him? What wife would live in the same house with her husband and yet never speak to him by the six …

The Ravens' Cry

Psalm 147:9

… When John Ryland's wife, Betty, lay dying, she was in great distress of mind, though she had been for many years a Christian. Her husband said to …