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.
Husbands, love your wives even as the Christ also loved the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and gave himself for her,
Nevertheless, let each one of you do likewise, let each one so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverences her husband.
So ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord with his congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}
Therefore, leaving the lie, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.
Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,
neither give place to the devil.
Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for edification, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.
União e fidelidade
O que Deus ajuntou não separe o homem. Eu e minha casa serviremos ao Senhor. A fidelidade é alicerce do casamento.
Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
And if it seems evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter against them.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, into which likewise ye are called into one body, and be ye thankful.
Clothed, therefore, (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) with bowels of mercies, with kindness, with humility, with meekness, with tolerance,
forbearing one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a quarrel against another: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Perdão e paciência
Sede bondosos e compassivos uns com os outros. O amor é paciente, benigno. Permanece e persevera.
Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up,
is not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,
rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from her husband;
and if she separates, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife.
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband does not have authority of his own body, but the wife.
Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves,
with each one not looking to their own things, but also to the things of others.
See that no one renders evil for evil unto anyone, but always follow that which is good, both among yourselves and to all men.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover a multitude of sins.
Whosoever found a wife found a good thing and has attained the favour of the Lord.