Hopes and Gifts

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
- 1 Peter 3:7

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- Acts 20:35

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
- Proverbs 13:12





Nothing is more grievous than the disappointment of a raised expectation... hope quite dashed kills the heart, and the more high the expectation was raised the more cutting is the frustration of it. It is therefore our wisdom not to promise ourselves any great matters ... and what we do hope for let us prepare to be disappointed... Nothing is more grateful than to enjoy that which we have long wished and waited for.

(from Matthew Henry's Commentary)