Amor de casal
O amor de casal é celebrado na Bíblia como dom sagrado. O Cântico dos Cânticos exalta a beleza do amor conjugal — íntimo, exclusivo e forte como a morte.
Close your heart to every love but mine;
hold no one in your arms but me.
Love is as powerful as death;
passion is as strong as death itself.
It bursts into flame
and burns like a raging fire.
Water cannot put it out;
no flood can drown it.
But if any tried to buy love with their wealth,
contempt is all they would get.
The Woman’s Brothers
The look in your eyes, my sweetheart and bride,
and the necklace you are wearing
have stolen my heart.
Your lips cover me with kisses;
your love is better than wine.
There is a fragrance about you;
the sound of your name recalls it.
No woman could keep from loving you.
How beautiful you are, my love;
how your eyes shine with love!
The Woman
How handsome you are, my dearest;
how you delight me!
The green grass will be our bed;
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him."
He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. Then the man said,
"At last, here is one of my own kind—
Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh.
‘Woman’ is her name because she was taken out of man."
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.
Find a wife and you find a good thing; it shows that the Lord is good to you.
So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married— pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love. Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man’s wife?
So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together."
Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. ( None of us ever hate our own bodies. Instead, we feed them, and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.
And to all these qualities add love, which binds all things together in perfect unity.
Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. But if someone is alone and falls, it’s just too bad, because there is no one to help him. If it is cold, two can sleep together and stay warm, but how can you keep warm by yourself? Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break.
Didn’t God make you one body and spirit with her? What was his purpose in this? It was that you should have children who are truly God’s people. So make sure that none of you breaks his promise to his wife.
Various Laws
"When a man is newly married, he is not to be drafted into military service or any other public duty; he is to be excused from duty for one year, so that he can stay at home and make his wife happy.