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 it seemeth evil to you, that ye serve the Lord, choosing is given to you; choose ye to you today that, that pleaseth, whom ye owe most to serve; whether to gods, which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, whether to the gods of Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; forsooth I, and mine house, shall serve the Lord.
Charity is patient, it is benign; charity envieth not, it doeth not wickedly, it is not blown [with pride],
it is not covetous, [or ambitious, or covetous of worships], it seeketh not those things that be his own [or her own], it is not stirred to wrath, it thinketh not evil,
it joyeth not on [or in] wicked-ness, but it joyeth together to [or with] truth;
it suffereth all things, it believeth all things, it hopeth all things, it sustaineth all things.
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
And the peace of Christ enjoy in your hearts, in which ye be called in one body, and be ye kind.
The word of Christ dwell in you plenteously, in all wisdom; and teach and admonish yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.
All thing, whatever thing ye do, in word or in deed, all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, doing thankings to God and to the Father by him [or doing thankings to God the Father by him].
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
See ye, that no man yield evil for evil to any man; but evermore pursue ye that that is good, each to other, and to all men.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
Therefore that thing that God hath joined together, no man separate [or part].
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 the Lord God said, It is not good that a man be alone; make we to him an helper like to himself.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
Forsooth ever either was naked, that is, Adam and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
and said, Make we man to our image and likeness, and be he sovereign to the fishes of the sea, and to the volatiles of heaven, and to [the] unreasonable beasts of [the] earth, and to each creature, and to each creeping beast or each reptile, which is moved in [the] earth.
And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female.
And God blessed them, and said, Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the earth, and make ye it subject; and be ye lords to the fishes of the sea, and to [the] volatiles of heaven, and to all living beasts that be moved on [the] earth.
Forsooth increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and enter ye on [the] earth, and fill ye it.
Therefore it is better, that two be together than one; for they have profit of their fellowship.
Whether one made not, and the residue of spirit is his? and what seeketh one, no but the seed of God? Therefore keep ye your spirit, and do not thou despise the wife of thy youth;
Amor conjugal
Maridos, amai vossas mulheres. A mulher virtuosa é achada de Deus. Cresçam juntos em graça e verdade.
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
All bitterness, and wrath, and indignation, and cry, and blasphemy be taken away from you, with all malice;
and be ye together benign, [or of good will], merciful, forgiving together, as also God forgave to you in Christ.
For which thing put ye away leasing, and speak ye truth each man with his neighbour, for we be members each to other [or together].
Be ye wroth, and do not do sin [or do not ye sin]; the sun fall not down on your wrath.
Do not ye give stead to the devil.
He that stole, now steal he not; but more rather travail he in working with his hands that that is good, that he have whereof he shall give to the needy.
Each evil word go not out of your mouth; but if any is good to the edification of faith, that it give grace to men that hear.
And do not ye make the Holy Ghost of God sorry, [or heavy], in which ye be marked in the day of redemption.
All bitterness, and wrath, and indignation, and cry, and blasphemy be taken away from you, with all malice;
and be ye together benign, [or of good will], merciful, forgiving together, as also God forgave to you in Christ.
He that findeth a good woman, findeth a good thing; and of the Lord he shall draw up mirth. He that putteth away a good woman, putteth away a good thing; but he that holdeth an adulteress, is a fool and unwise.
nothing [doing] by strife, neither by vain glory, but in meekness, deeming each other to be higher [in virtue] than himself;
not beholding each by himself what things be his own, but those things that be of other men.
For all ye be the children of God through the belief of Jesus Christ. [For all ye be the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.]
For all ye that be baptized, be clothed with Christ.
There is no Jew, nor Greek, no bondman, nor free man, no male, nor female; for all ye be one in Christ Jesus.
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
Do not ye bear the yoke with unfaithful men. For what parting, [or communing], of rightwiseness with wickedness? or what fellowship of light to darknesses?
Nevertheless neither the man is without the woman, neither the woman is without [the] man, in the Lord.