The Marriage Ring, Or, How to Make Home HappyGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1843 - 128 pages |
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The Marriage Ring: Or How to Make Home Happy (Classic Reprint) John Angell James No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 69 - He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
Page 88 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church ; for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 20 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 83 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Page 84 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 68 - Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of GOD which passeth by us continually. Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall ; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick : and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Page 52 - As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Page 104 - It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Page 67 - And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman ; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Page 97 - For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.