Marriage

Morning, November 22

Ho 12:12

Morning, November 22 Go To Evening Reading “Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.” Hosea 12:12 Jacob, while expostulating with Laban, thus …

The Soul Winner

… In the case of a husband, none should be so earnest for his restoration as his wife, and the same rule holds good with regard to the wife …

Abijah, or Some Good Thing Towards the Lord

1 Kings 14:13

… Fearful lest the prophet should denounce plagues upon him and his child if he knew that the enquirer was the wife of Jeroboam, the king begged the Egyptian …

Psalm 81

Psalm 81

… The word give up suggests the idea of a divorce, whereby a husband sends away a capricious wife, and commands her to live by herself...Transferred to God …

Prayer 25 — The Washing of Water By The Word

… hast given Jesus to be to them a leader, a commander, and a husband and we know that Thou delightest to hear us cry on the behalf of …

Psalm 95

Psalm 95

… me now." If we were for ever testing the love of our wife or husband, and remained unconvinced after years of faithfulness, we should wear out the utmost …

More and More

James 4:6

… And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of Heaven, and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife unto my …

The Well-Beloved

… Put together all the loves of husband wives, parents, children, brothers, sisters, and they only make a drop compared with His great deeps of love, unexplored and unexplorable …

The Love Of Jesus—What It Is—None But His Loved Ones Know

Ephesians 3:19

… Oh, that day! That marriage day! That feast day! That day of Heaven on earth! Our soul was burdened and bowed down to the very dust, and we …

Number 2400—or, "Escape for Your Life!"

Genesis 19:17

… Probably it was that excellent house that made Lot's wife look back— she could hardly relinquish all those nice things of theirs even for life, itself! Beware …

First Sermons at New Park Street Chapel

… And there, husband, is your beloved wife, who cheered you on your way; you look back, and almost faultless as you in your fondness deemed her, yet you …

Psalm 132

Psalm 132

… And that which sweetens all this—he knows that all this is but a little to what he shall shortly live upon when he comes to the marriage …

Bringing the King Back

2 Samuel 19:10

… written there? You have played the harlot and gone away from your first Husband, but He says, "Return, return, you backsliding children, for I am married unto you …

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

2 Timothy 2:15

… And the whole family were the better—the man and his wife, and one of his children becoming members of a Christian Church some time afterwards. What an …

Lingerers Hastened

Genesis 19:16

… SPURGEON, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington . "And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… fire, and no possibility of saving them; when the husband heard the shrieks and cries of his dying wife; the father, of his little children; and, unawares, perceived …

Hatred Without Cause

John 15:25

… And he has saved thy wife’s soul. Ah! if he never saves thee; if thou lovest thy wife, thou wilt have enough cause to love him, to …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… Spurgeon had the great joy of accompanying her dear husband on this visit. Deacon James Low, who was another of his Pastor's companions on this occasion, gave …

Our Expectation

Isaiah 53:10

… And it is so with that model Husband, the Lord Christ and His perfect Church above. He loves His people no less and He could not love them …

Fearing and Trusting—trusting and Not Fearing

Psalm 56:3

… Her husband said he would tell her the reason, so, snatching up a sword, he pointed it at her heart. She looked at it, but did not tremble …

The Immutability of Christ

Hebrews 13:8

… So you may dry your tears, I have a father in heaven, and you have a husband still.” O! ye saints that have lost your gold and your …

To Those Who Have Believed

… Faith is doing her very best when for many years she plods on, month by month, trusting the Lord about the sick husband, the failing daughter, the declining …

Are You Mocked?

Psalm 14:6

… A Christian woman had often prayed for a very ungodly and unkind husband, but her prayers were not heard. However she did this, she treated him more kindly …

Samuel—an Example of Intercession

1 Samuel 12:23

… Your husband, good Woman, what if he grows more drunken and more profane? Still pray for him! God, who can draw out leviathan as with a hook, can …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890

… May you have daily strength for your great affliction, and may your heart exult more and more in the Lord ! Pray for my poor wife, who suffers ever …

A Paradox

2 Corinthians 12:10

… His wife is exceedingly beautiful, and he fears that the king of Egypt will kill him in order to obtain his wife; what will he do? I can …

God in the Covenant

Jeremiah 31:33

… heaven-born saint once did, “I have no husband, and yet I am no widow, my Maker is my husband. I have no father or friend, and yet …

Meditation on God

Psalm 104:34

… swallowed up in its sweetness! Have I not seen the widow, when her husband has been called away, and he who was her strength, the stay and sustenance …

Job's Resignation

Job 1:20-22

… Let us not only regard our money and our goods as God's gifts, but also our wife, our children, our friends. What precious gifts they often are …

Question 63: What is the tenth commandment?

… What is the tenth commandment? A The tenth commandment is, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his …

Later Services at the Music Hall

… Spurgeon's wonderful life. " I have thus finished conveying to you some of my impressions of your dear husband's ministry at the Royal Surrey Gardens. You may …

Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified

Luke 23:48

… It is He, our Husband, our Ishi, who has called us His Hephzibah because His soul delights in us. It is He who suffered thus for us. Suffering …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… swallowed up in its sweetness! Have I not seen the widow, when her husband has departed and he who was her strength, the stay of her life and …

Looking Unto Jesus

Psalm 34:5

… rose, So all his followers must.” There widow; weep no longer for your husband, if he died in Jesus. See the Master; he is risen from the dead …

A Sermon For Spring

Solomon 2:10-13

… O that she had left dignities, and endowments, and laws to worldly corporations—and had rested on her Husband's love alone! Alas for our divisions at this …

The Prodigal'S Reception

Luke 15:20

… I do not know, my Husband," she says, "what it is. But yet I am sure he is getting among bad companions." She will read his character at …

Compassion for Souls

Genesis 21:16

… My child shut out of heaven! My husband absent from the seats of the blessed! My sister, my brother not in glory! When the Lord counts up his …

The Heart Of Jesus

Matthew 11:29

… Her husband persecuted her cruelly for her religion and one day, in his passion, he struck her on her face so as to knock her to the ground …

Faith Working By Love

Galatians 5:6

… an interest in a person so as to call him, "my brother," "my husband," "my son," then a sense of property increases our sense of affection. This made …

The Eternal Day

Isaiah 60:20

… No losses, no crosses, no bodily pains, no infirmities of old age, no bereavements, no child taken from the bosom, no husband from the side, no funeral knell …