Casal
O casal cristão é parceria abençoada por Deus. Juntos são mais fortes. O amor mutual, a paciência e a submissão ao Senhor são os pilares do casamento que honra a Deus.
Unidos em Cristo
Eu e minha casa serviremos ao Senhor. O vínculo perfeito é o amor que tudo suporta e tudo espera.
But if you don’t want to worship the Lord, choose today who you want to worship! Is it going to be the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates? Or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you’re now living? But as for me and my family, we will worship the Lord!"
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not boastful. Love is not proud. Love does not act improperly, or insist on having its own way. Love is not argumentative and doesn’t keep a record of wrongs. Love takes no delight in evil but celebrates the truth. Love never gives up, keeps on trusting, stays confident, and remains patient whatever happens.
Above all, love one another, which is the perfect bond that will hold you together. May the peace of Christ direct your thinking, because you were called to this by God who makes you one, and thank God for it! Let Christ’s message fully live in you. In every wise way teach and instruct one another through psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing praises to God in gratitude and sincerity. Whatever you do, whether in word or action, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, praising God the Father through him.
Above all, love one another, which is the perfect bond that will hold you together.
Make sure none of you pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to one another, and to everyone.
Now they’re no longer two, but one. What God has joined together no one should separate."
Let no one separate what God has joined together."
O projeto divino
Não é bom que o homem esteja só. Dois são melhores do que um — e o cordão de três dobras não se rompe facilmente.
Then the Lord God said, "It’s not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that’s like him."
This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.
This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being. Adam and his wife Eve were both naked, but they weren’t embarrassed about it.
God said, "Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it." So God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female. God blessed them and told them, "Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth."
Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!"
Two are better than one, for they can help each other in their work.
Did he not make you one, and give some of his Spirit to you? And what does he want? Children of God. So watch what you do, and don’t be unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young.
Amor conjugal
Maridos, amai vossas mulheres. A mulher virtuosa é achada de Deus. Cresçam juntos em graça e verdade.
Husbands, you should love your wives in the same way as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.
Husbands should love their wives just like this, as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself— for no one ever hated his own body, but feeds it and looks after it, just as Christ does for the church,
"This is why a man leaves his father and mother, and is joined to his wife, and the two are united in one."
Get rid of every kind of bitterness, rage, anger, verbal abuse, and insults, along with all forms of evil. Be kind and compassionate to each other, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
So reject lies, and tell the truth to each other—for we belong to each other. Don’t sin by getting angry; don’t let evening come and find you still mad— and don’t give the devil any opportunity. Thieves, stop your stealing, and do honest, productive work with your hands, so you’ll have something to give to those who need it. Don’t use bad language. Speak words that will encourage people as necessary, so that those who listen will be helped. Don’t disappoint the Holy Spirit of God that marked you as belonging to him until the day of redemption. Get rid of every kind of bitterness, rage, anger, verbal abuse, and insults, along with all forms of evil. Be kind and compassionate to each other, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
If you find a wife, that’s great, and you’ll be blessed by the Lord.
Don’t do anything from a spirit of selfishness or pride, but humbly think of others better than you do of yourself. None of you should be preoccupied about your own things—instead concern yourself with the interests of others too.
For you are all God’s children through your trust in Christ Jesus. All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There’s no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Everyone should honor marriage. Husbands and wives should be faithful to each other. God will judge adulterers.
Don’t join together with people who don’t believe—for what connection does goodness have with wickedness? What do light and darkness have in common?
Even so, from the Lord’s perspective, the woman is as essential as the man, and the man as essential as the woman.