Amor próprio
O amor próprio saudável reconhece o valor que Deus nos deu. Fomos criados à imagem de Deus, maravilhosamente formados. Aceitar-se é honrar o Criador.
I praise you because you made my body in a very awesome and wonderful way.
Everything that you do is amazing!
I know that very well.
God, what you think about me is very precious (OR, is very hard to understand).
There is a great number of things that you think about.
If I could count them, I would see that they are more than the grains of sand at the seashore.
And when I wake up, I am still with you
and I know that there are still more of your thoughts about me to count.
When I look up at the sky at night,
and see the things that you have made—
the moon and the stars that you have set in place—
it is amazing to me that [RHQ] you think about people,
that you are concerned about us humans!
You made the angels in heaven to be only a little more important than we are;
you caused us to be like kings [MET] and you gave us splendor and honor [DOU]!
Sometimes he lifts poor people up so that they no longer sit in the dirt;
he helps needy people so that they no longer sit on heaps of ashes
and causes them to be honored by sitting next to princes,
the sons of the kings who rule their people.
But Yahweh said to Samuel, "No, he is not the one whom I have chosen. Don’t pay attention to his being handsome and very tall, because I have not chosen him. I do not evaluate people as people do. You people evaluate people by their appearance, but I evaluate people by what is in their inner beings."
But you are people whom God has chosen to belong to him. You are a group that represents God like priests do, and you rule with God [MET] like kings. You are ◄a holy group of people/a group of people who are separate from evil►. You are people who belong to God. This is in order that you might proclaim the virtues of God. He has called you from your former ways, when you were ignorant of his truth, into the marvelous understanding that he gives us [MET]. That is, he has called you out of spiritual darkness into spiritual light.
Think about the sparrows. They are worth so little that you can [RHQ] buy five of them for only two small coins. But not one of them is ever forgotten by God {God never forgets one of them}! You are worth more to God than many sparrows. So do not be afraid of what people can do to you! God even knows how many hairs there are on each of your heads, so that if you(sg) lose one hair, he knows about it. So nothing bad can happen to you without his knowing it.
Do not think about yourselves more highly than you should. Instead, think about yourselves sensibly, in a way that corresponds to the abilities that God has given to you because you trust in Christ. May we do diligently and cheerfully what God has given us the ability to do.
Because God has kindly appointed me to be his apostle, which I did not deserve, I say this to every one of you: Do not think about yourselves more highly than what is right for you to think! Instead, think about yourselves in a sensible way that corresponds to the abilities that God has given you because you trust in Christ.