In theWifeof Bath’s prologue‚ she details her past and former fivehusbands. She did not wed any but one for love‚ and that they had all passed away. The first three were “good”; they were submissive older men. She attempts at justifying promiscuity with biblical verses. The Lord...
A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.World English BibleFor the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies,...
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband! Treasury of Scripture Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here. Go. John 4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. John 1:...
These verses have been used to browbeat wives into feeling guilty when they don’t want sex or avoid it. But notice that Paul doesn’t say a wife’s body belongs only to her spouse. It says it belongs also to her spouse. As ‘one flesh,’ a wife shares her body with her husband....
Julie’s family physician was one of those friends. He had met Brian at the hospital, and his wife led a Bible study that Julie participated in. He took Brian to lunch one day and brought his Bible with him. “I told him to close the Bible,” Brian says. “I said I didn...
(J. Budziszewski, personal blog): “It is abhorrent beyond words to abandon those who have done us the greatest good. Disloyalty to my friend, unfaithfulness to my wife, ingratitude to my parents, treason to my fatherland — such things cannot even be spoken of without shame, calumny, ...
1In the days when the judges ruled,[a]there was a famine in the land.So a man from Bethlehem in Judah,together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a whilein the country of Moab.2The man’s name was Elimelek,his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons...
I've shared my story so others will find hope, too. I know what it's like to feel inadequate as a wife and woman. I know what it's like to have nowhere to go with your pain and shame. I know what it's like to wonder if you can go on in your marriage. I know what a str...
A good man can be a great man if he has a great wife by his side as his helpmeet. It has been said, “Behind every great man, there is a great woman.” And we can find related verses in scripture. He who finds a wife finds a good thing ...
"The apostle Paul later mentioned that Peter took his wife on his missionary travels." (Who Was Who in the Bible) Peter's house at Capernaum became the headquarters of Jesus' lakeside ministry, and Peter's boat was always at his disposal. "Peter's ardor, earnestness, courage, vigor, ...