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.
and if [it is] wrong in your eyes to serve YHWH—choose for yourselves today whom you serve—whether the gods whom your fathers served, which [are] beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land you are dwelling; but me and my house—we serve YHWH."
Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil, [does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth; it bears all things, it believes all, it hopes all, it endures all.
and above all these things, [have] love, which is a bond of the perfection, and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you were also called in one body, and become thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the LORD; and all, whatever you may do in word or in work, [do] all things in the Name of the Lord Jesus—giving thanks to the God and Father, through Him.
and above all these things, [have] love, which is a bond of the perfection,
see [that] no one may render evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue that which is good, both to one another and to all;
So that they are no longer two, but one flesh; what therefore God joined together, let no man separate."
what God therefore joined together, do not let man separate."
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.
And YHWH God says, "[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart."
therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.
therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh. And both of them are naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.
And God says, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth." And God creates the man in His image; in the image of God He created him, a male and a female He created them. And God blesses them, and God says to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping on the earth."
And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it."
The two [are] better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labor.
And He did not make one [only], || And a remnant of the Spirit [is] for him. And what [is] the one [alone]! He is seeking a godly seed. And you have been watchful over your spirit, || And with the wife of your youth, || None deal treacherously.
Amor conjugal
Maridos, amai vossas mulheres. A mulher virtuosa é achada de Deus. Cresçam juntos em graça e verdade.
The husbands: love your own wives, as the Christ also loved the Assembly, and gave Himself for it,
so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—he loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and nurtures it, as also the LORD—the Assembly,
"For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh";
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice, and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as God also forgave you in Christ.
For this reason, putting away the lying, each speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another; be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the Devil; whoever is stealing let him no longer steal, but rather let him labor, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need. Let no corrupt word go forth out of your mouth, but what is good to the necessary building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; and do not make the Holy Spirit of God sorrowful, in which you were sealed to [the] day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice, and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as God also forgave you in Christ.
[Whoever] has found a wife has found good, || And brings out goodwill from YHWH.
nothing in rivalry or vainglory, but in humility of mind counting one another more excellent than yourselves— do not each look to your own, but each also to the things of others.
for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for as many as were immersed into Christ put on Christ; there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus;
The marriage [is to be] honored by all, and the bed undefiled, for God will judge whoremongers and adulterers.
Do not become yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness?
but neither [is] a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the LORD,