Ajuda para casais
Deus fortalece casamentos. A Bíblia oferece sabedoria prática para casais: comunicar com verdade, perdoar com graça, servir com amor e buscar a Deus juntos.
Amor e respeito
Maridos, amai vossas mulheres. Mulheres, respeitem seus maridos. O amor mútuo edifica o casamento.
About husbands
Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf,
In any case, each of you individually: let each one love his own wife as himself, while the wife must respect her husband.
Just so the husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own flesh; rather he nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the Church
Practical instruction
Therefore, having put away falsehood, ‘Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,’ for we are members of one another.
‘Be angry but do not sin’; do not let the sun set on your angry mood, nor give an opportunity to the devil.
Let no evil word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, as needed, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and slander be removed from you, with all malice. Rather, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as in Christ God forgave you.
União e fidelidade
O que Deus ajuntou não separe o homem. Eu e minha casa serviremos ao Senhor. A fidelidade é alicerce do casamento.
So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God joined together let not man separate!"
Perdão e paciência
Sede bondosos e compassivos uns com os outros. O amor é paciente, benigno. Permanece e persevera.
Love described
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud, is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious; it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all;
Mixed marriages
Now to the married I command (not I but the Lord): a wife is not to be separated from her husband (but if she does separate herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to divorce his wife.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; similarly also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except by mutual consent for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and to prayer, and come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard one another as being better than yourselves. Let each of you look out not only for his own concerns, but also for what concerns others.