Marriage

The King's Mowings

Amos 7:1

… be where Jesus is? Husband, by the love you bore your wife, you cannot grudge her the Glory into which she has entered! Wife, by the deep devotion …

Good Advice For Troublous Times

Isaiah 26:20

… You fear that you are going to be very ill, or that your dear wife is likely to die. You are afraid that your property will be taken …

Retrospect—"The Lord Has Blessed"

Joshua 17:14

… how the Bible ends? It closes with that happiest of conclusions—marriage and happiness—the marriage of the Lamb is come and His bride has made herself ready …

Prayer 2 — Thanks Be Unto God

… We bless Thee for becoming man that Thou mightest be our next of kin, and being next of kin, we bless Thee for taking us into marriage union …

A Holy and Homely Resolve

Psalm 101:2

… His Lordship said, "Come in." Who should enter but his wife? What a delightful picture of obedience! Knocking at a husband's door occurred to me as not …

Some Reminiscences of Foreign Travel

… Oh, there was at least one wife who was proud of her husband that day! In after years, during the long lonely months occasioned by my ill-health …

Christ Our Passover

1 Corinthians 5:7

… Do you not think you see the sire, as he commands his matronly wife to roast the lamb before the fire! “Take heed,” he says, “that not a …

Idols Abolished

Hosea 14:8

… They have followed the dictates of the flesh by joining in marriage with the ungodly. It is a dreadful thing to be married to one from whom you …

Knowing and Doing

2 Corinthians 8:9

… is a wife who says to her husband, "I am afraid of this, and afraid of that," he says to her, "But, my dear wife, can you not …

The Best of the Best

Solomon 2:1

… He is a Husband, but what a Husband! Was there ever such a Bridegroom as Christ Jesus the Lord? He is the Head, but Father Adam was a …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… Tenderly as a husband thinks of the doting affection of his wife, as a father receives the fond homage of his children, as a brother when he is …

The Sojourn in Mesech

Psalm 120:5

… There may be a storm within your very doors—a husband who will not let you rest and children who cast your religion in your teeth—but there …

His Own Funeral Sermon*

Acts 13:36

… Spurgeon feels that her dear husband could not have delivered a more suitable discourse for "his own funeral sermon." She has, therefore, given it that title in the …

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… So long as the business prospered, the husband was in good health, and the world smiled, God was never thought of. Can I be mistaken in supposing that …

Why Saints Persevere

… As husband and wife are one, so is Jesus one with all those who are united to Him by faith; one by a conjugal union which can never …

The Form of Godliness Without the Power

2 Timothy 3:5

… Many a time courtship and marriage have led to a formal religiousness, but a lacking heart. The future husband is induced to make a profession of religion for …

The Honored Servant

Proverbs 27:18

… Oh, it is blessed to obey Him to whom our hearts are fully surrendered and in whom all loveliness is centered! When a husband truly loves his wife …

The Cholera Year in London

… her father, and all the while smiling as if it had been her marriage day. She was happy and blessed. I never saw more conspicuously in my life …

Vile Ingratitude!

Ezekiel 16:1-2

… child that spurned his Father’s love! forgive a wife who has played the harlot against a divine husband! pardon a soul that has been traitorous to its …

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… We love our wives—if your wife should ask for anything that would be for her good and you could give it, would you refuse it? Husband, would …

The Loved Ones Chastened

Revelation 3:19

… mother, whose soul is knit into the soul of her babe—some wife, some husband, to whom the loss of the partner would be the loss of life …

The Ethiopian

Jeremiah 13:23

… His dear wife used to have a wonderful influence over him for good, but he has even broken away from that. And there is that dear girl of …

Simeon

Luke 2:25

… See that husband? He has just returned from the funeral of his wife. Do you mark his countenance? He says, "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken …

My Restorer

Psalm 23:3

… Jonathan thus? More than that, in wondrous love Jesus has called Himself your Husband and taken you to be His spouse. Is not that strange love, or the …

The Shrill Trumpet of Admonition

Jeremiah 48:11

… We read that "they married and were given in marriage." They did eat and did drink, and were drunk even until the day when Noah entered the ark …

A Question for Communicants

Exodus 12:26

… Can you, will you, forget Him? Will you not now forget everything else and indulge the sweet memory of your faithful Lover, your dear Husband who is married …

Three Texts, But One Subject— Faith

Psalm 57:1

… They compared themselves to a wife who had been divorced by her husband, or to children who bad been sold by their father because of his extreme poverty …

Waiting, Hoping, Watching

Psalm 130:5

… more than they who watch for the morning." Never did bride expect her marriage day as the true saint expects his Lord! Never did woman in travail long …

Joseph Attacked by the Archers

Genesis 49:23

… Seeing that he would not yield to temptation, his mistress falsely accused him to her husband, and his lord, believing the voice of his wife, cast him into …

How the Lambs Feed

Isaiah 5:17

… Never did the Church have such marriage feasts as when her members died at the gallows and the fire! Christ Jesus has made Himself preeminently near and dear …

Three Precious Things

1 Peter 2:7

… The ungenerous sea has made a wife a widow. Oh, what would she not give, if she had it, to restore life once more to that well-beloved …

'Pray Without Ceasing'

1 Thessalonians 5:17

… Christ is our husband. Is the bride true to her marriage vows if she cares not for her beloved's company? God is our Father. What sort of …

Difficulty in the Way of Believing

… I am like the good man and his wife who had kept a lighthouse for years. A visitor, who came to see the lighthouse, looking out from the …

Untitled Sermon

Psalm 119:144

… If husband or wife had died, what a sorrow it would be if an unkind word had been spoken, or a difference had arisen just before the last …

Mutual Love Between Pastor and People

… Our prayers shall still mingle at the private and public altar that himself, his dear wife, and their sons may be long spared to enjoy that blessing which …

Plenteous Redemption

Psalm 103:7

… It must have been well nigh as sweet to them as the marriage peals to a youthful bridegroom, when they knew that the noble British nation would count …

Unreasonable Reasons

Matthew 14:31

… Dear child, what is wrong with you? Here is a beloved wife, we will say, and for many years she has been the joy of her husband. He …

Love's Lamentation

Malachi 1:2

… her very unkind and wicked husband. She was so obedient, gentle, affectionate and patient that he even boasted about what a good wife he had. And in company …

"Sitting By"

Luke 5:17

… sitting by" on account of their vainglorious prejudices, may be brought into the marriage feast of Grace and made willing to wear the wedding garment and honor Him …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… Where is the wife with whom you lived joyously in the early days of your life? Or where is the husband whose fair young face so often looked …