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, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Nevertheless, each man among you must love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cares for it, just as the Lord does for the church,
Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each of you must speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
Do not sin in your anger. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give any opportunity to the devil.
Let no foul word come out of your mouth, but only what is good for edification, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Put away all bitterness, wrath, anger, outbursts, and slander, together with all malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has forgiven us.
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 has joined together, let no one separate."
Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed must be kept pure, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Rules for Christian Households
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be embittered against them.
Above all, put on love, which is the bond of perfection. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and beloved, put on tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one other if any one of you has a complaint against another; just as Christ forgave you, so you also must forgive.
Perdão e paciência
Sede bondosos e compassivos uns com os outros. O amor é paciente, benigno. Permanece e persevera.
Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is not puffed up or rude. It does not seek its own way, it is not irritable, and it keeps no record of wrongs. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Now to the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband (but if she does separate, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and a husband must not divorce his wife.
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise 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 time, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer and then come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility regard others as more important than yourselves. None of you should look out for your own interests, but for the interests of others.
Make sure no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always strive to do good to each other and to everyone else.
Above all, maintain a deep love for one another, because love will cover a multitude of sins.