Marriage

Paved With Love

Solomon 3:10

… The tried Believer cries, "My wife has been taken from me! My property is melting away, my business fades. I am sick in body and weary in soul …

Faith Essential to Pleasing God

Hebrews 11:6

… Believe in Him as you believe in your wife or your child whom you try to please. Believe in God beyond everything, that "He is," in a sense …

Satanic Hindrances

1 Thessalonians 2:18

… And therefore Satan made another attempt to hinder his retaining his holy character—he excited his wife to say, "Why do you hold fast your integrity? Curse God …

Go Back? Never!

Hebrews 11:15

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

Hypocrisy

Luke 12:1

… Well, some time in the evening you will find him very pious again, unless he is out on a journey, where neither wife, nor family, nor church can …

Covenant Blessings

Ezekiel 36:26

… You may make a man weep over his dead child or his dead wife till his eyes are red—but his heart will be black for all that …

Forts Demolished and Prisoners Taken

2 Corinthians 10:5

… Jesus, he should comprehend his house, his money, his body, his time, his wife, his children—everything in the deed of surrender—for He who bought us with …

Strength And Recovery

Zechariah 10:12

… You cannot say it without question concerning your own children, nor your own wife, nor your own friend. The wills of men and women are wayward and fickle …

A Free Grace Promise

Joel 2:32

… them as when a man stands weeping over the body of his dead wife, and would restore her to life even at the cost of his own life …

The Christian's Helmet

1 Thessalonians 5:8

… You will be poor, your children will need bread, your wife will be worse than a widow if you are such a fool." "Ah," says the Christian, "but …

No Tears In Heaven

Revelation 7:17

… bad debt, no slandered name, no harsh word, no sick child, no suffering wife to bring before the Lord in weeping prayer? You must be an inhabitant of …

Trembling at the Word of the Lord

Isaiah 66:2

… I feel more and more a tenderness for the Truth of God of the same sort as I would feel for the good name of my wife or …

Three Names High on the Muster Roll

Daniel 3:16-18

… Remember what Jesus said to the multitudes who went with Him, "If any man come to Me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children …

'I Have Enough'

Genesis 33:9

… It is well for a man's wife and his family that he should be of a happy temperament and of a contented spirit, instead of being, as …

"Take, Eat"

Matthew 26:26

… You cannot eat for your wife or your child. You have to do that for yourself. Now, dear Heart, be brave enough to take Christ all to yourself …

The Master

John 11:28

… took it, I am content." Have you lost a dear child, or a wife, or a friend? It was HE that took your flower! It belonged to Him …

Jehovah-Shammah—a Glorious Name for the New Year

Ezekiel 48:35

… it matter? The father of the family lives near to God and his wife rejoices to be his fellow-helper in prayer, while the children grow up to …

Living on the Word

Deuteronomy 8:3

… And so it happened, though the judge never knew it, for his own wife sent food to the poor man and kept him alive until, at last, he …

Dead, Yet Alive

Romans 6:11

… Your experience will be like that of the artist who at last painted a picture with which he was perfectly satisfied and he then said to his wife …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… When the secondary fatherhood is gone the child falls back upon the primary fatherhood of the Creator; when the husband of earth is removed the godly widow casts …

Christian Conversation

Psalm 145:11

… under which we live—a prayer by a patriot who had seen his wife murdered and his children dashed to pieces—and he prayed thus— 6, 7. If …

Heart-Knowledge of God

Jeremiah 24:7

… A mother's love, a wife's fondness, a sweet child's affection will come before us even in the last hours of life. When the mind will …

Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy

John 16:20-22

… honors, does anyone lament over his campaigns? When he left the castle, his wife hung about his neck and mourned that her lord must go to the wars …

Maschil Of Ethan, A Majestic Song

Psalm 89:1

… You, my dear Friend, see mercy from one point and your wife, even though she is one with you, sees it from another point and detects another sparkle …

Jesus and the Lambs

Isaiah 40:11

… shepherd's kitchen fireside is, for a time, the lamb's own nursery! Wife and children are put aside for awhile, and the warm place is all given …

Why Is Faith So Feeble?

Mark 4:40

… it quite so easy to be calm? "Ah!" says one, "I have a wife and family at home who depend upon my fishing. How can I be calm …

Breakfast With Jesus

John 21:12

… Persons who have no religion have always a selection of religious questions, varying from the stupidity of, "Who was Cain's wife?" onward to, "What will man become …

The Agreement Of Salvation By Grace With Walking In Good Works

Ephesians 2:9

… I am asked by his wife and friends to speak to him a word that may bless him. Shall I tell him that he can only be saved …

"I and the Children"

Isaiah 8:18

… His own wife tempting him and his friends accusing him, yet that man, who was a greater conqueror than Alexander or Napoleon, still said, "What? Shall we receive …

Onward!

Philippians 3:13

… A great painter once had finished a picture and he said to his wife with tears in his eyes, "It is all over with me. I shall never …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… after that, he said, "Blessed be the name of the Lord." When his wife said, "Curse God, and die," he still blessed God and held his integrity. He …

The Faculty of Impromptu Speech

… Achan was stoned, and his wife, and his children, but others of his family must have escaped, for the race has certainly been perpetuated, and needs to be …

'Where Are the Nine?' Where?

Luke 17:17

… like to get back." "Ah," says another, "and I have not seen my wife for many a day. Let me be off to the priest and then go …

Gospel Missions

Acts 13:49

… working hard all the week and only earning just enough to keep his wife and family: he will give a shilling; now, I have so many pounds a …

Offended Because of Christ?

Matthew 11:6

… and declaring, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife," may have fainted in spirit when he found himself shut up in prison with …

Beware of Unbelief

2 Kings 7:2

… Their wife has found peace, but they have not; their dear child has been converted, but they are not: the brother has seen his sister rejoicing in the …

The Joyous Return

Hosea 14:1-3

… lately trotting out your horses before your own family and saying to your wife, "I am not like many men. I never drink too much, neither do I …

The Minstrel

2 Kings 3:15

… himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.’ Elisha acted rightly, and bravely. When he saw Jehoram coming, to him …

"Eyes Right"

Proverbs 4:25

… Be not like Lot's wife who longed and looked and lingered and was lost. Away, away, away from Sodom, altogether away—let no eye steal in that …

Silken Cords

Hosea 11:4

… Still, the merchant never altered his treatment of him, but sent him meat as usual and attended to his wife and children if they were sick, the same …