If ever men will hear, it is when they are sick; and if ever they will be humbled and serious, it is when the approach of death constraineth them.
When your own necessity constraineth you to seek your own, which you cannot get by easier means.
His reply to the gainsayer was, "The love of Christ constraineth me.
NAKED, whether male or female, I do not yet know: but it cometh, it constraineth me, alas!
It persuadeth me, I know not how, it toucheth me inwardly with a caressing hand, it constraineth me.
And it is the love of Christ that constraineth to live to him.
And now, if ye have choice, go up to the land, and remember the words which I speak unto you, that if ye go ye will also perish; for thus the Spirit of the Lord constraineth me that I should speak.
Then the text seemed to repeat itself in answer, "For the love of Christ constraineth us!
Hear him: 'For the love of Christ constraineth us.
And it is very observable how God constraineth the bitter enemies of holiness to bear this testimony for the honour of holiness against themselves!
No advantage is taken of providence, no necessity constraineth when occasion offereth; and so it is like the world’s appointed hours.
For the love of God constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
I wish to try to make one or two of them now, by getting some of you to take for your motto, 'The love of Christ constraineth us.
The love that constraineth is the love that died, and died for all, because it died for each.
And Paul explained himself by the great word of my text, 'The love of Christ constraineth us.
And it is the love of Christ that constraineth to live to him; 2 Kings vi.
He is the food of our obedience: "the love of Christ constraineth us.
The love of Christ constraineth us"--forces us along, carries us away as with the impetuosity of a torrent, or rather as when cool heavens and favoring air speed the vessel steadily to the haven.
The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, and if one died for all then were all dead, and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them.
And then, lest any should suppose that he was speaking his own words, he adds, "For I am full of matter; the spirit within me constraineth me.
And Oh, let it be out of love to my sweet Lord Jesus; for the love of Christ constraineth me.
No, no; the love of Christ constraineth us thus to judge, that it is but reasonable, since he gave his all for us, that we should give our some for him.
That is the truer way of putting it; for it is not our love to Christ, but the love of Christ to us which constraineth us.
We shall have all this, because the lower is included in the higher; but our true aim, if the love of Christ constraineth us, will be far beyond this.
Now introduce one sentence of this text of which we have as yet said nothing, and the dark doctrine becomes illuminated--"the love of Christ constraineth us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constraineth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
