Amizade
A amizade é um dos dons mais preciosos da vida. A Bíblia celebra amizades profundas — Davi e Jônatas, Rute e Noemi, Paulo e Timóteo — modelos de lealdade, fé e amor.
Valor da amizade
Há amigo mais chegado do que um irmão. Em todo tempo ama o amigo. A amizade verdadeira permanece nas tempestades.
A person of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
A person of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.
One who conceals an offense seeks love,
But one who repeats a matter separates close friends.
As iron sharpens iron,
So one person sharpens another.
As iron sharpens iron,
So one person sharpens another.
Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
And a person’s advice is sweet to his friend.
Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
And a person’s advice is sweet to his friend.
Do not abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house on the day of your disaster;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
Do not abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house on the day of your disaster;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
One who walks with wise people will be wise,
But a companion of fools will suffer harm.
A perverse person spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates close friends.
Do not make friends with a person given to anger,
Or go with a hot-tempered person,
Or you will learn his ways
And find a snare for yourself.
Amizade cristã
Vós sois meus amigos se fazeis o que eu mando. Jesus nos chama de amigos — que honra imensa e responsabilidade!
Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.
Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor,
For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.
Exemplos bíblicos
Davi e Jônatas fizeram aliança de amizade. Rute se apegou a Noemi. Abraão foi chamado amigo de Deus.
Now it came about, when he had finished speaking to Saul, that Jonathan committed himself to David, and Jonathan loved him as himself. And Saul took him that day and did not let him return to his father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
Then David said, "Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul, so that I could show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?"
But Ruth said, "Do not plead with me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you sleep, I will sleep. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates me from you."
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called a friend of God.
"For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
So that he does not abandon the fear of the Almighty.
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Companheirismo
Dois são melhores do que um. Quão bom e suave é que os irmãos vivam em união! A amizade fortalece e edifica.
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor; for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up!
for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up!
And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor;
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to live together in unity!
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to live together in unity!
It is like the precious oil on the head,
Running down upon the beard,
As on Aaron’s beard,
The oil which ran down upon the edge of his robes.
It is like the dew of Hermon
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For the Lord commanded the blessing there—life forever.
God makes a home for the lonely;
He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the rebellious live in parched lands.
Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."