Marriage

Little Faith and Great Faith

Matthew 14:31

… It is a dreadful thing to have the devil in your husband, or a devil in your daughter, when you go home. Yet many a Christian woman has …

Grace and Glory

Psalm 84:11

… Far more, we shall converse with Jesus, our elder Brother, our Lover, our Husband! These words drop easily enough from my lips, but what their full meaning must …

Christ Put On

Romans 13:14

… For instance, Jesus could not be a husband after the flesh. Does anyone demand how He could be an example for husbands? Hearken! "Husbands, love your wives, even …

The Lion-slayer—the Giant-killer

1 Samuel 17:36

… But we say, "Alas, there is a great difference! Our present trials have an unusual bitterness in them." "I," cries the widow, "I lost my husband and God …

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… Is He Prophet, Priest and King? Is He Friend? Is He Brother? Is He Husband? Is He Head? Every way and everywhere we lean the weight of our …

Praying And Waiting

1 John 5:13-15

… sad." Why, Hannah, why do you smile? You have not yet seen your husband. You have no signs that God has visited you and granted the desire of …

The Secret Spot

Deuteronomy 32:5

… his moral character! Not that it has at all made him a better husband or a kinder father! Not that it influences him in trade! Not that you …

The Great Birthday and Our Coming of Age

Galatians 4:3-6

… Then shall the bride adorn herself with her jewels and stand ready for her Husband! The whole waiting creation which now groans and travails together in harmony with …

"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:13

… And the godly woman, lately converted, whose husband remains a swearer and blasphemes the name of Christ. It is the same with workmen who have to labor in …

A Sweet Silver Bell Ringing in Each Believer's Heart

Micah 7:7

… Smith has lost her husband, mother, and she is very sad. She sits and cries, and I get up and lay my cheek on her cheek, and I …

Learning in Private What to Teach in Public

Matthew 10:27

… She landed in England after being shipwrecked and she sent her husband this brief but suggestive telegram, "Saved—alone." Ah, that last sad word seemed as if it …

The God of Bethel

Genesis 31:13

… speak—with whom you can speak, yourself—as real to you as your husband, your father, your friend? Are you in the habit of keeping up constant communication …

What The Church Should Be

1 Timothy 3:15

… the children! As one of them, you see the man, the father, the husband! You see his heart and soul. And God is not seen in all the …

The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

… Oh! Church of Christ what thine husband disdained, do thou disdain also. He might have had it, but he would not. And he read to us the lesson …

Fallen Asleep

1 Corinthians 15:6

… their great distress—their agony of heart—at the loss of child, or husband, or friend. They pile the mournful words together to try to describe their grief …

Special Thanksgiving to the Father

Colossians 1:12

… on the bridal garment, she is not like the bride adorned for her husband. You do not see her yet robed in her elegant attire, with her ornaments …

The Minister'S Stock-Taking

Acts 28:24

… The preacher who talks to me as a husband, a master, a servant, or as a son—who when I come after the cares of the week and …

The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace

James 4:7-10

… From the moment when our mother Eve stretched out her hand to pluck the forbidden fruit and her husband joined her in setting up the human will against …

The Real Presence, the Great Want of the Church

Solomon 3:4-5

… the contrary, as God is a jealous God, so is Christ a jealous husband to his church. He will not tolerate in her what he would tolerate in …

Folly of Unbelief

Luke 24:25

… Oh, to be delivered from shams, and windbags, and to believe God as a woman believes her husband, or a child believes its father! I hear of writers …

The Elders Before The Throne

Revelation 4:4

… We are bought with a price." Why live as if we were our own? He is our Husband, our soul is espoused to Him. Oh, how can we …

Strong Faith

Romans 4:20

… trust in her, for it is said of such—"The heart of her husband does safely trust her." But surely, she is not to be relied upon as …

When Should We Pray?

Luke 18:1

… I have heard of a woman who said that she would pray for her husband for 20 years and, according to the story, at the end of 20 …

The Physician Pardons His Palsied Patient

Matthew 9:2-7

… Your dear husband who is at home ill. That business which is flagging and likely to fail. That disease of yours which is weakening you and which makes …

The Voice Behind Thee

Isaiah 30:21

… Now, listen to what he will say, ‘I will return unto my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.’ This poor soul looks on …

Marah Better Than Elim

Exodus 15:22-26

… O Israel, it is early days to be falling out with your new Husband! They had just been married to the Lord by a new Covenant and baptized …

Comfort To Seekers From What The Lord Has Not Said

Isaiah 45:19

… Ryland, a good Christian woman, who, when she lay dying, was very, very sad, and her husband said to her, "You are dying, my Dear?" "Yes," she said …

A Solemn Impeachment of Unbelievers

1 John 5:10

… When she believed him and her husband joined her in it, our ruin was complete. Unbelief of God drove our race out of Eden and, in consequence, we …

Faint—but Not Faint-Hearted

Judges 8:4

… a soul and you have not yet won the victory? Is it your husband? Is it your wayward boy? Is it a friend? Have you been at Jabbok …

Alive or Dead—Which?

1 John 5:12

… one place a living woman, and side by side with her a dead husband; further on, a living child, and then a dead grey headed grandsire. Oh! what …

Hearing With Heed

Mark 4:24

… Now see their attention, how they brighten up, and look at one another as the lawyer reads, "To my dear grandchild Jane and her husband, I leave_." Now …

God Is With Us

Romans 8:31

… Your Husband is married to you and He has proved His love by such indisputable tokens that you must not, oh, you cannot doubt it! Child of God …

Pray For Jesus

Psalm 72:15

… of His people His spouse—a spouse that does not pray for her husband is most unwifely. We must not so act if we are Christians in deed …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… Perhaps He will leave you a widow, that the love that ran in the channel of a husband may run altogether to Himself. Perhaps He will take away …

Wakeful and Watchful Eyes

Psalm 121:4

… that the lady of the house is a more severe taskmaster than her husband is. So the maidens watch their mistress' hands very carefully, for they are sorely …

The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience

John 5:11

… Divine Grace, become sober and so has become a good father, a good husband and a good citizen. It lets that miracle pass by unheeded—but if he …

Israel's God and God's Israel

Deuteronomy 33:26-28

… That broad bosom of your beloved husband beats fondly and faithfully—but when death lays it low, as before long it must—how wretched will be your condition …

The Great Itinerant

Acts 10:38

… Is He a Husband? He must love His Church and give Himself for her, that He may cleanse and perfect her. Is He a Friend? He "sticks closer …

His Name—The Everlasting Father

Isaiah 9:6

… It shall be a New Jerusalem coming down from Heaven, prepared by God, as a bride is prepared for her husband, worthy of her Lord and a meet …

The Principal Wheat

… I find that the Hebrew is rendered by some eminent scholars, “He puts the wheat into the principal place.” That little handful of cummin for the wife to …