Marriage

Evening, April 14

Is 3:10

… in God; he is well married , his soul is knit in bonds of marriage union to Christ; he is well provided for , for the Lord is his Shepherd …

Evening, May 20

Ho 11:4

… his bone and flesh of his flesh, married to him by a glorious marriage-covenant. Herein is love! But it is love which takes no denial . If we …

Maroth—or, the Disappointed

Micah 1:12

… A man was looking forward to what he hoped would be a happy marriage, but his intended bride suddenly died—and then he surrendered his heart to Jesus …

Near the Kingdom, or in It?

Mark 12:34

… In the resurrection, therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them, for the seven had her to wife. No doubt they thought that they …

Comfort and Constancy

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… You are Christ's, but Christ is also yours! As the husband belongs to the wife, and the wife belongs to the husband, so there is a mutual …

The Joy of Holy Households

Psalm 118:15

… If the wife shall be converted as well as the husband, what a comfort it is to them both! Now will two parts of the music be taken …

Prosperity Under Persecution

Exodus 1:10-12

… long for the home-bringing, when the King, the Husband, shall fetch home his spouse, and the marriage shall be consummated in the skies. Oh! how sometimes, when …

March 27 — DRAWING NEAR TO GOD

James 4:8

… When the tender wife seeks her husband's society, he comes to her on wings of love. Come then, dear friend, let us draw nigh to God who …

Prayerful Importunity

Luke 18:7

… Her husband was dead. He had left her, perhaps, a little property, but some adversary, very probably a lawyer, seized hold of it and took from her all …

The Judgment Upon Zacharias

Luke 1:20

… And yet beyond common friendship in the near relation and tender attachment of a wife to her husband, the most unqualified confidence should be reposed. Even so, my …

A Peal of Bells

Zechariah 14:20

… It is an ill thing when a Christian husband is a worse husband than a wordly one; it is an evil thing when the husband and wife do …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890

… Spurgeon's marriage. He added this postscript, and sent it on to the lady mentioned in it, who has carefully treasured it until the present time : — " Sweet love …

A Woman of a Sorrowful Spirit

1 Samuel 1:15

… Though dearly loved by her husband, the jealousy of the rival wife embittered Hannah's life and made her "a woman of a sorrowful spirit." We thank God …

How God Comes to Man

Genesis 3:8

… be to your husband, and he shall rule over you. And unto Adam He said, Because you have hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten …

"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"

Song 6:13

… The Hebrew word is a feminine of "Solomon." "Solomon" may stand for the bridegroom's name, and then the well-beloved bride takes her husband's name in …

Psalm 19

Psalm 19

… marriage is not a mar age, but it make's a merry age, being "the consolation of Israel," and comfort of Jerusalem's heart. Indeed, Christ our husband …

The Last Three Months at Mentone;–and Afterwards

… IT was a tender token of the Lord's lovingkindness that husband and wife were, for once, permitted to travel together to Mentone, and to spend there three …

Evening, September 27

Song 5:4

… Sweetest and dearest of all beloveds, I have treated thee as an unfaithful wife treats her husband. Oh, my cruel sins, my cruel self. What can I do …

Morning, August 27

Nu 14:11

… It is very cruel for a well-beloved wife to mistrust a kind and faithful husband. The sin is needless, foolish, and unwarranted. Jesus has never given the …

Evening, June 13

Pr 30:8

… A converted wife who despaired of her husband was always very kind to him, for she said, “I fear that this is the only world in which he …

Ruth Deciding for God

Ruth 1:16

… She had lost her husband and her two sons, but now she had found the soul of her daughter-in-law. And I believe that, according to the …

To Those Who Are Angry With Their Godly Friends

Genesis 4:6

… If it made the husband a tyrant. If it made the wife a tattler and untidy and dirty. If it turned all relationships upside-down—then there would …

A Refreshing Canticle

Song 1:4

… She is such a forgetful wife that all her Husband's affections would be lost upon her, were it possible. But that cannot be—there is something about …

Diary, April to June, 1850

… NOT very long after our marriage, my husband brought to me, one day, a small clasped book, and putting it into my hand with a grave and serious …

The King Feasting in his Garden

Solomon 5:1

… She had had five husbands, and he with whom she then lived was not her husband. She was an adulteress and a Samaritan. But Christ said, after He …

Miracles Of Love

Isaiah 38:17

… I am not afraid for you, dear Sister, that the marriage bond will lead you away from holiness or that your maternal love will ever rival your love …

The “Down-grade” Controversy, from Mr. Spurgeon’s Standpoint

… The most pathetic "Note" of all was written within a few days of my dear husband's home-going, for in it he revealed the fact, already known …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… Jesus has come to your house and found there a wife who ardently loves Him, and He might well have said, "Surely the husband of My handmaiden will …

Experiences after Conversion

… In the marriage covenant of which the Lord speaks, when the Husband put the ring upon His bride’s finger, He said to her, “Thou hast become Mine …

A Heavenly Pattern for Our Earthly Life

Matthew 6:10

… The New Jerusalem shall come down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride is prepared for her husband. We are sure of this. Therefore unto this …

Praying and Pleading

Jeremiah 14:7

… Jesus, You are Head of the family? You are the Lord, the Husband. Will You act as if You were a mere lodger or a stranger? Tell Him …

Waiting Only Upon God

Psalm 62:6

… The wife often saith, “I love the Lord, but if my husband died, where would be my dependence?” What! hast thou buttressed the almighty even with a husband …

Wheat in the Barn

… I pray you, remember that it will interpose between brother and brother—between mother and child—between husband and wife. “One shall be taken and the other left …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… We offend our loving Husband, the Lord Jesus, and then we think He will not take us back again into those dear arms. But He will—"I will …

Thorns and Thistles

Genesis 3:18

… Perhaps the wife or the husband may be taken away to the long home; or poverty comes in; or one whom you love dearer than yourself pines daily …

The Lord with Two or Three

Matthew 18:20

… A husband and wife—there are two. A husband and wife and a child—there are three. Or there may be two unmarried sisters, or a widow and …

Christ’s Estimate of His People

Solomon 4:10-11

… It has been frequently said, and, I believe, has commonly been thought, that this song was originally written by Solomon upon his marriage with Pharaoh’s daughter. Now …

Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:13

… How bitterly we might have spoken of His goodness if our husband were in a consumption, or if our wife were in the tomb. Our little ones are …

Paul's Sermon Before Felix

Acts 24:25

… By the side of Felix sat Drusilla; in the verse preceding our text she is called his wife. It is said she was a Jewess. This Drusilla was …

The Solar Eclipse

Isaiah 45:7

… Old Master Brookes very prettily says, the husband gives his wife rings which she wears upon her finger as remembrances of his love. Suppose a wife should be …