Marriage

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… Then troubles lowered o’er thee; thy family sickened, thy wife was dead, thy crops were meager, and thy daily income was diminished, thy cupboard was no more …

'Our Light Affliction'

2 Corinthians 4:17

… and had to work as hard as I do to maintain a sickly wife, and a large family, he would not have written about 'our light affliction.' I …

Christ Before Annas

John 18:12

… Alas, there are still many who never enquire about Christ at all, but they decide against Him and then they begin to persecute wife, child, friend, neighbor, or …

Jesus, the Example of Holy Praise

… I said an indissoluble union, for a wife may be divorced, but there is no divorce of Brethren. I never heard of any law, human or Divine, that …

A Song, A solace, A Sermon and a Summons

Psalm 136:1

… The young man may look upon his wife and children and see his father, and mother, and friends about him—but as sure as we are men, either …

Pleading With the Indifferent

Lamentations 1:12

… and is found, at last, a handful of ashes bewailed by a weeping wife! One felt at once, "There was a man who had a soul beating beneath …

Regeneration

John 3:3

… Do you see the drunkard reeling down the street, the pest of the neighborhood, fighting every body, and beating his wife, worse than the brute. Well, he is …

Psalm 87

Psalm 87

… For the Church, as a bride glorious in her husband, shall evermore be preached of; glorious things shall be spoken of her, and in her shall be continually …

The Redeemer's Prayer

John 17:24

… interrupts even our most quiet moments—the shop, the field, the child, the wife, the head, perhaps the very heart, all these are interlopers between ourselves and Jesus …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man (Concluded)

… And Jesse begat David the king ; and David the king begat Solomon of her thai had been the wife of Urias ; FACSIMILE OF MR. SPURGEON'S MANUSCRIPT OF …

Psalm 48

Psalm 48

… or wealth, or friends, or honours, or liberty, or life, or house, or wife, or child, or pardon, or peace, or grace, or glory, or earth, or heaven …

Daniel Facing the Lions' Den

Daniel 6:10

… back the stars in their courses will fight against you. "Remember Lot's wife! "She looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt. The apostate is …

A Bad King's Good Son

1 Kings 14:13

… You will not forget what she said when she was going, "Mother, follow me to Heaven!" But I warn you, even as Ahijah did the wife of Jeroboam …

The Great Assize

2Corinthians 5:10

… A poor labourer who kills his wife shall be hanged, but when another matt of superior station does the like deed of violence, and stains his hands with …

The Smoke Of Their Torments

Genesis 19:27

… My poor brother! Ah, poor Lot! His wife! His daughters! The city with its inhabitants! A thousand thoughts of melting pity come rushing up at once. He does …

The Believer's Glad Prospects

Song 2:17

… There is the wife sickening. There is this disease in my own body. But, Lord, until this trouble is removed, come near, come near and still nearer!" If …

Psalm 135

Psalm 135

… If a house be on fire, the owner of it will first take care of his wife and children, then of his jewels, and last of all, of …

The Wordless Book

Psalm 51:7

… He had shared his perils and privations, so it was a shameful return on the part of the king when he stole the wife of his faithful follower …

Wrecked, But Not reckless

Acts 27:20

… There has been a perplexity about money, or an anxiety about a sick child, or sore disquietude concerning a dear sick wife or a dire apprehension that the …

A Safe Prospective

Daniel 8:19

… You gaze upon the dear wife and pitiful children with ever-increasing anxiety. Are you a child of God? Have you learned to cast your burden upon the …

The Garden Of The Soul

Matthew 26:36

… John, open your ears! And you, Magdalene, and you, Mary, and you, the wife of Herod's steward, and other gracious women, listen for the inference which I …

The Enemies of the Cross of Christ

Philippians 3:18

… But we have further tears because of the mischief that such sinners do. "Enemies of the Cross of Christ" do a world of damage to wife and children …

Our Hiding Place

Isaiah 32:2

… The wife of his youth may be taken away from him or the friend of his middle age may suddenly be smitten down. The world is full of …

Private and Confidential

Psalm 25:14

… The daughter of an honest, smock-frocked laborer and his quiet, godly wife. There was this poor woman declaring that God was ever in her room. As I …

Faith's Way of Approach

Romans 10:17

… Faith made him build the great ship on dry land, into which he went with his wife and family and all manner of living creatures—and when the …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… But suddenly the child sickened or the wife was smitten with death, or trade separated from you, or you, yourselves, were ill, or there was a famine in …

The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6

… Laban cheated him all the years he was there—cheated him of his wife, cheated him in his wages, cheated him in his flocks, and cheated him all …

God in Nature and in Revelation

Psalm 19:7-9

… is His relationship to His Church, which is "the bride, the Lamb's wife." He is here said to be "coming out of His chamber," as He came …

Growth in Grace

2 Peter 3:18

… The next morning, when the elder came down, his wife said to him, "Eh, Jan, you look very sad this morning. What's the matter wi' you?" "Ah …

Psalm 119

Psalm 119

… An affectionate wife often says, "My husband! your words are sweeter to me than honey; yes, they are sweeter than the sugar cane." "Alas! my husband is gone …

'Stewards'

1 Corinthians 4:1

… I keep on remembering house after house in my prayer, and I pray for the man, his wife, his children and all who dwell with him." Thus, without …

Praise Comely to the Upright

Psalm 33:1

… the coffin lid of a dear child, or a friend, or a beloved wife, then to be able to say, "The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken …

The Pilgrim's Longings

Hebrews 11:15-16

… And Jacob'he had found a wife'nay, two'in Laban's land, but he was not content there. No, no child of God can be, whatever he …

Mercy, Omnipotence, and Justice

Nahum 1:3

… terrify you, than the shield and sword of the warrior need terrify his wife or his child. “Nay,” saith the woman, “is he strong? He is strong for …

Footsteps Of Mercy

Job 33:23

… In your distraction you say, "How long I have been ill! How long I have been out of work and how long my wife has been afflicted! How …

'The Old Testament 'Prodigal'

2 Chronicles 33:12

… There are modes of torture which can be used against a believing wife, such as will hardly be imagined! Children can be provoked and grievously afflicted by un …

'Ever This Our War Cry—victory, Victory!'

Isaiah 53:12

… Now there stood by the Cross of Jesus, His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore sa w …

A Gospel Promise

Ezekiel 36:27

… His wife told him at length that she was of their mind and took their part. "Ah, well," he said, "it is a nuisance that I cannot live …

A Promise and Precedent

John 16:14

… you are so slow of speech that you cannot even tell your own wife or child what you have seen of the beauties of Christ, yet the Holy …

'Marvelous Loving Kindness'

Psalm 17:7

… They would even recognize it in the arrows of death that smote wife, and child, and brother. They would see it, not only in the table loaded for …