Casamento
O casamento é aliança sagrada instituída por Deus. Ele une marido e mulher em uma só carne — pacto de amor, fidelidade e companheirismo que reflete o amor de Cristo pela Igreja.
Fundamento divino
Não é bom que o homem esteja só. Deus criou o casamento como aliança de companheirismo, amor e fecundidade.
Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him."
So Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, Yahweh took out one of the man’s ribs. Then he immediately closed the opening in his body and healed it. Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man’s body, and he brought her to the man. The man exclaimed, "Wow! This is truly ◄someone like me/what I was looking for!► She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man."
The first woman was taken from the man’s body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
The first woman was taken from the man’s body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
Although the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about that.
The first woman was taken from the man’s body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man’s body, and he brought her to the man. The man exclaimed, "Wow! This is truly ◄someone like me/what I was looking for!► She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man."
The first woman was taken from the man’s body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
Then God said, "Now we will make human beings that will be like us in many ways. I want them to rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds, over all the ◄livestock/domestic animals►, and over all the other creatures that scurry across the ground." So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female. God blessed them, saying, "Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground."
God punished Adam and Eve’s oldest son Cain for killing his younger brother Abel
Adam ◄had sex/slept► with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son whom she named Cain, which sounds like the word that means ‘produce’, because, she said, "By Yahweh’s help I have produced a son." Some time later she gave birth to another son, and she named him Abel.
Adam and Eve had another son, Seth
Adam continued to ◄have sex/sleep► with [EUP] his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to another son, whom she named Seth, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘given’, because, she said, "God has given me another child to take the place of Abel, since Cain killed him."
Fidelidade conjugal
O que Deus ajuntou não separe o homem. O casamento deve ser honrado e o leito matrimonial preservado sem impureza.
Consequently, although they functioned as two separate people before, they now become as if they were one person [MET]. Since that is true, a man must not separate from his wife whom God has joined to him, because it is God’s plan for them to remain together."
Jesus said to them, "Because you have read [RHQ] the Scriptures, you should know that at the time God first created people, ‘he made one man, and he made one woman to be that man’s wife.’ That explains why God said, ‘When a man and woman marry, they should no longer live with their fathers and mothers. Instead, the two of them shall live together, and they shall become so closely united that they are like one person [MET].’ Consequently, although they functioned as two separate people before, they now become as if they were one person [MET]. Since that is true, a man must not separate from his wife whom God has joined to him, because it is God’s plan for them to remain together."
That explains why God said, ‘When a man and woman marry, they should no longer live with their fathers and mothers. Instead, the two of them shall live together, and they shall become so closely united that they are like one person [MET].’ Consequently, although they functioned as two separate people before, they now become as if they were one person [MET]. Since that is true, a man must not separate from his wife whom God has joined to him, because it is God’s plan for them to remain together."
Jesus taught that people should not divorce their spouses.
"It is written {Moses wrote}, ‘If a man is divorcing his wife, he should write a document on which he states that he is divorcing her.’ But now listen to what I say to you: A man may divorce his wife only if she has committed adultery, and not for any other reason. If a man divorces his wife for any other reason, and he has sex with another woman, he makes his wife become one against whom he has committed adultery, because in God’s estimation she still is his wife. Also, if a man marries a woman who is divorced {whose husband has divorced her}, God considers him guilty of committing adultery."
Jesus taught about the way to refuse to sin when we are tempted to do something wrong.
"You have heard God’s commandment, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But what I say to you is this: If a man only looks at a woman desiring to have sex with her, God considers that his doing that [MET] is sin.
One of them replied, "Moses permitted that a man may write on paper his reason for divorcing his wife, give this paper to her, and then send her away." Jesus said to them, "It was because your ancestors stubbornly wanted just what they desired that Moses wrote that law for your ancestors, and you are just like them! Remember that he also wrote that, when God first created people, he made one man, and one woman to become that man’s wife. That explains why God said, ‘When a man and woman marry, they should no longer live with their fathers and mothers after they marry. Instead, the two of them shall live together, and they shall become so closely united [MET] that they are like one person.’ Therefore, although the people who marry were two separate persons before, God regards them as one person now, so he wants them to remain married. Because that is true, a man must not separate from his wife whom God has joined to him, because God’s plan is for them to remain together!"
God also considers a woman who divorces her first husband to be committing adultery if she marries another man."
Respect the marriage relationship, and avoid covetousness.
You must ◄respect/keep sacred► the marriage relationship in every way, and you must keep sexual relations [EUP] pure, because God will surely condemn those who act immorally and those who act adulterously.
Respect the marriage relationship, and avoid covetousness.
You must ◄respect/keep sacred► the marriage relationship in every way, and you must keep sexual relations [EUP] pure, because God will surely condemn those who act immorally and those who act adulterously.
Respect the marriage relationship, and avoid covetousness.
You must ◄respect/keep sacred► the marriage relationship in every way, and you must keep sexual relations [EUP] pure, because God will surely condemn those who act immorally and those who act adulterously.
Amor como Cristo
Maridos, amai vossas mulheres como Cristo amou a igreja. O amor conjugal reflete o evangelho em ação.
Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all of us who would become believers, with the result that he willingly died for our sake, in order that he might ◄set us apart for himself/cause us to belong to him►. That is, by revealing his message to us, he wanted to remove the guilt of our sin, just like people remove dirt from something by washing it [MET].
Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all of us who would become believers, with the result that he willingly died for our sake, in order that he might ◄set us apart for himself/cause us to belong to him►. That is, by revealing his message to us, he wanted to remove the guilt of our sin, just like people remove dirt from something by washing it [MET]. Christ did that in order that he might cause all of us believers to be a glorious group of people that belong to him, people that do not have any moral flaws/imperfections, but instead might be completely pure [DOU] when he gathers us ◄to his presence/to himself►.
Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all of us who would become believers, with the result that he willingly died for our sake, in order that he might ◄set us apart for himself/cause us to belong to him►. That is, by revealing his message to us, he wanted to remove the guilt of our sin, just like people remove dirt from something by washing it [MET]. Christ did that in order that he might cause all of us believers to be a glorious group of people that belong to him, people that do not have any moral flaws/imperfections, but instead might be completely pure [DOU] when he gathers us ◄to his presence/to himself►. In the same way, each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. Men who love their wives, it is as though they love themselves. This is shown by the fact that no one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds his own body and cares for it, just like Christ also cares for all us believers. We have become one group of believers that belongs to him [MET].
In the same way, each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. Men who love their wives, it is as though they love themselves.
In the same way, each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. Men who love their wives, it is as though they love themselves. This is shown by the fact that no one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds his own body and cares for it, just like Christ also cares for all us believers. We have become one group of believers that belongs to him [MET].
Instructions about how wives and husbands, children and parents, and slaves and masters should behave toward each other.
Because husbands have authority over [MET] their wives, just as all of us believers form one group under the authority of Christ, you women should submit yourselves to the authority of your husbands just as you submit yourselves to the Lord Jesus. He is the one who saves all his people from the guilt of their sins. Just like all believers submit themselves to the authority of Christ, the women must submit themselves completely to the authority of their husbands.
Instructions about how wives and husbands, children and parents, and slaves and masters should behave toward each other.
Because husbands have authority over [MET] their wives, just as all of us believers form one group under the authority of Christ, you women should submit yourselves to the authority of your husbands just as you submit yourselves to the Lord Jesus. He is the one who saves all his people from the guilt of their sins.
Instructions about how wives and husbands, children and parents, and slaves and masters should behave toward each other.
Because husbands have authority over [MET] their wives, just as all of us believers form one group under the authority of Christ, you women should submit yourselves to the authority of your husbands just as you submit yourselves to the Lord Jesus. He is the one who saves all his people from the guilt of their sins. Just like all believers submit themselves to the authority of Christ, the women must submit themselves completely to the authority of their husbands.
Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all of us who would become believers, with the result that he willingly died for our sake, in order that he might ◄set us apart for himself/cause us to belong to him►. That is, by revealing his message to us, he wanted to remove the guilt of our sin, just like people remove dirt from something by washing it [MET]. Christ did that in order that he might cause all of us believers to be a glorious group of people that belong to him, people that do not have any moral flaws/imperfections, but instead might be completely pure [DOU] when he gathers us ◄to his presence/to himself►. In the same way, each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. Men who love their wives, it is as though they love themselves. This is shown by the fact that no one ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds his own body and cares for it, just like Christ also cares for all us believers. We have become one group of believers that belongs to him [MET]. What someone has written in the Scriptures about people who marry is this,
When a man and a woman marry, they should ◄permanently leave/no longer live with► their fathers and mothers. They should be joined as husband and wife, and the two of them shall become as though they were one [MET] person.
It is very difficult to understand the meaning of these things that God has now revealed to me, but I am telling you that those words also refer to the relationship between Christ and all those who belong to him. However, as for you(pl), each man must love his wife just as he loves himself, and each woman must respect her husband.
What someone has written in the Scriptures about people who marry is this,
When a man and a woman marry, they should ◄permanently leave/no longer live with► their fathers and mothers. They should be joined as husband and wife, and the two of them shall become as though they were one [MET] person.
However, as for you(pl), each man must love his wife just as he loves himself, and each woman must respect her husband.
However, as for you(pl), each man must love his wife just as he loves himself, and each woman must respect her husband.
Do not commit any kind of immoral act [DOU], and do not desire more things than you need. Do not act in such a way that others could even ◄spread rumors/talk► about your acting in such ways, because it is not appropriate/fitting for God’s people to do such things.
Submissão e respeito
Mulheres, sujeitem-se aos próprios maridos. Maridos, convivam com as esposas com conhecimento e honra.
Wives, be subject to your husbands; husbands, love your wives.
You women, be subject to your husbands, since that is what you should do because you have a close relationship with the Lord Jesus. You men, love your wives; and, do not be harsh with them.
And what is more important than all of these is that you love one another, because by doing that you will be perfectly united together.
Continue to be at peace with one another, be constantly thanking God, and continue getting to know thoroughly the message about Christ.
Because God chose you to live peacefully with one another in your local congregations, let that peace which Christ gives control your ◄inner beings/hearts►, and be constantly thanking God. And continue to let the message about Christ govern/direct all you think and do, as you very wisely teach and warn one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs (OR, songs that God’s Spirit gives you), while you sincerely and thankfully sing to God.
Do everything in the manner that those who are the people of the Lord Jesus should do.
Whatever you say, and whatever you do, do all of this in the manner that those who are representatives [MTY] of the Lord Jesus should do, while you constantly thank God, our Father, as you ask the Lord Jesus to take your prayers to God.
And what is more important than all of these is that you love one another, because by doing that you will be perfectly united together.
Do not do what is evil.
Get rid of your evil practices/deeds [MET, MTY] as though they were enemies whom you were killing (OR, Stop doing evil things [MET, MTY], just as dead people do not do what is evil). Specifically, do not practice sexual immorality. Do not commit unnatural sexual acts. Do not desire to act like that, and do not desire to do anything that is evil. Do not desire to have more things than you need, because, if you do that, you are ◄worshipping material things instead of worshipping God/making material things to become your god►.
You men must live in an appropriate way with your wives, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
You men who are believers, just like your wives should respect you, you should conduct your lives in an appropriate way with them. Treat them respectfully, realizing that they are usually weaker than you are, and realizing that ◄they share with you/both of you have► the gift that God has kindly given to you, which is eternal life. Do this so that nothing will hinder you from praying (OR, hinder God ◄from answering/from doing what you ask for► when you pray).
You men must live in an appropriate way with your wives, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
You men who are believers, just like your wives should respect you, you should conduct your lives in an appropriate way with them. Treat them respectfully, realizing that they are usually weaker than you are, and realizing that ◄they share with you/both of you have► the gift that God has kindly given to you, which is eternal life. Do this so that nothing will hinder you from praying (OR, hinder God ◄from answering/from doing what you ask for► when you pray).
Pureza no casamento
Não adulterarás. A impureza sexual destrói alianças e famílias. Deus chama à santidade no matrimônio.
Do not ◄commit adultery/have sex with anyone other than your spouse►.
Do not ◄covet/desire to have► someone else’s house, someone else’s wife, someone else’s male or female slave, someone else’s livestock, someone else’s donkeys, or anything else that some other person owns."
But because many people are committing sexual immorality, which God detests, every man should have his own wife with whom he can have sexual relations, and every woman should have her own husband with whom she can have sexual relations.
Every man must continue having sexual relations [EUP] with his wife, and every woman must continue having sexual relations with her husband. A man’s wife does not have the right over her own body to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with her husband. Instead, her husband also has a right to decide about that. Similarly, a woman’s husband does not have the right over his own body to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with his wife. Instead, his wife also has a right to decide about that.
Every man must continue having sexual relations [EUP] with his wife, and every woman must continue having sexual relations with her husband. A man’s wife does not have the right over her own body to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with her husband. Instead, her husband also has a right to decide about that. Similarly, a woman’s husband does not have the right over his own body to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with his wife. Instead, his wife also has a right to decide about that. You may refuse to have sexual relations with each other [EUP] only if you both first agree to do that for a short time, in order that you may both have more time to pray. Then after that, begin having sexual relations again [EUP] in order that Satan will not be able to persuade you to have sex with someone else because you are unable to control your sexual desires.
Every man must continue having sexual relations [EUP] with his wife, and every woman must continue having sexual relations with her husband. A man’s wife does not have the right over her own body to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with her husband. Instead, her husband also has a right to decide about that. Similarly, a woman’s husband does not have the right over his own body to be the only one to decide about having sexual relations with his wife. Instead, his wife also has a right to decide about that. You may refuse to have sexual relations with each other [EUP] only if you both first agree to do that for a short time, in order that you may both have more time to pray. Then after that, begin having sexual relations again [EUP] in order that Satan will not be able to persuade you to have sex with someone else because you are unable to control your sexual desires.
It is all right to get married, but it is wrong to get divorced. However, you should not force an unbelieving spouse to keep living with you.
Now I want to say this to you unmarried people and to you whose spouses have died: It would be good for you to remain unmarried as I am. But if you cannot control your sexual desires [EUP], you should get married. It is better to be married so that you can satisfy your sexual desires with your spouse than to constantly have a strong desire [EUP] for sexual relations.
And now I will give a command for believers who are married. This is not a command from me alone; it also comes from the Lord Jesus. You married women must not ◄separate from/divorce► your husbands! But if any of you do that, you must remain unmarried, or else you should be reconciled with your husband and live with him again. Similarly, men must not ◄separate from/divorce► their wives.
I say that because God has set apart every woman’s unbelieving husband for himself because of his wife being a believer, and God has set apart every man’s unbelieving wife for himself because of her husband being a believer. If that were not true, God would consider their children unacceptable. But, the fact is that God does consider them acceptable to him.
It is better to remain unmarried because married people are more concerned about pleasing their spouses than about how to please the Lord.
Another reason why I encourage you to remain unmarried is that I desire that none of you be anxious about the everyday affairs of this life. Unmarried men are able to be primarily concerned about serving the Lord Jesus and trying to please him. But married men are often greatly concerned about the affairs of this life. Specifically, they are concerned about pleasing their wives. So their thinking is divided. Unmarried women are able to be concerned about serving the Lord. They want to set apart their minds and their bodies for serving the Lord. But married women are often concerned about the affairs of this life. Specifically, they are concerned about how to please their husbands.
Women whose husbands have died are free to get remarried, but only to believers. However, they will probably be happier if they do not marry again.
Women must remain married to their husbands while their husbands are still alive. But if a woman’s husband dies, she is free to marry any unmarried man whom she wants to marry, but he must belong to the Lord.
Married people should not deprive their spouses of sexual relations, except under special conditions.
Now I will reply to the things that you wrote to me about.
It is good for people not to get married. But because many people are committing sexual immorality, which God detests, every man should have his own wife with whom he can have sexual relations, and every woman should have her own husband with whom she can have sexual relations.
Always ◄run away from/avoid► committing sexually immoral acts. Other sins that people commit do not affect their bodies, but those who commit sexually immoral acts sin against their own bodies. ◄Keep in mind that your bodies are like [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit./Do you not know that your bodies are like [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit?► [RHQ] The Spirit, whom God gave you, lives within you. You do not belong to yourselves. You belong to God, because when his Son died for you it was as though [MET] God paid a price for you. So honor God by how you use your bodies!
Some of you may also say, "Food is just for us to put in the stomach, and the stomach is just for us to put food in. And since God will do away with food and stomachs when he gives us our new bodies, what we do with our bodies sexually does not affect us any more than eating food does." But what you have concluded is wrong, because the Lord does not want us to use our bodies to do sexually immoral things. Instead, the Lord wants us to use our bodies in ways that please him. Also, the Lord wants us to do what is good for our bodies. God, by his power, caused the Lord Jesus to live again after he died, and he will cause us to live again after we die, which shows that he is very concerned about our bodies.
◄You should keep in mind that wicked people will not become members of the group over whom God will rule./Do you not know that wicked people will not become members of the group over whom God will rule?► [RHQ] Do not be deceived {Do not deceive yourselves} by thinking wrongly about these matters. People who are sexually immoral, or who worship idols, or who ◄commit adultery/have sex with someone to whom they are not married►, or who happily allow others to commit homosexual acts with them, or who take the initiative in committing homosexual acts, or who are thieves, or who desire and forcefully seize things that belong to others, or who are drunkards, or who slander others, or who are swindlers, will not enter the place where God rules.
Those who [PRS] truly love others act patiently and kindly toward them. Those who [PRS] truly love others are not jealous of them, they do not boast about what they themselves have done, and are not proud. Those who [PRS] truly love others do not act in disgraceful/disrespectful ways towards them. They do not ◄act selfishly/think only of themselves and what they want►. They do not quickly become angry. They do not keep remembering the bad things that others have done to them. Those who [PRS] truly love others do not rejoice when people do evil things, but they do rejoice when people act righteously. Those who truly love others patiently put up withthe faults of others. They do not quickly assume that others have done something bad. They confidently expect that others will act righteously. They patiently endure all their own troubles.
It is ridiculous that [RHQ] you are quarreling and dividing up into groups instead of being loyal to Christ alone. Christ certainly has not divided himself into parts and distributed those parts out to groups of people who oppose each other! [MET, RHQ] I, Paul, certainly did not die on the cross for you! [RHQ] When you were baptized {When someone baptized you}, you certainly did not promise that you were submitting to me! [RHQ] I thank God that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized. As a result, no one there in Corinth except those two can say, "Paul baptized me so that I would become ◄his disciple/submissive to him►." Now I remember that I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else there. Christ sent me not primarily to baptize people but to preach the good message about him. When I do that, he does not want me to use words that human philosophers consider wise [IRO]. I do not want the message about what he accomplished when he was nailed to the cross [MTY] to lose its power.
You should expel the man in your congregation who has acted so immorally.
Now I want to discuss another matter. It has been {People have} reported to me, and I believe that it is true, that some people among you have been acting in a sexually immoral way, in a way that is so bad that not even ◄pagans/people who do not know about God► act that way. People tell me that a man is living with his stepmother (OR, his father’s other wife). You should be sad about what that man is doing! He should have been expelled {You should have expelled him} from your congregation! But you have not done that, so ◄how can you be proud, thinking that you are spiritually mature?/it is disgusting that you are proud, thinking that you are spiritually mature!► [RHQ]
Sabedoria conjugal
Acha esposa, acha o bem. Bebe água da tua própria cisterna. A fidelidade conjugal é fonte de bênção permanente.
If you marry a good woman, that is like finding a wonderful thing;
it shows that Yahweh is pleased with you.
If you marry a good woman, that is like finding a wonderful thing;
it shows that Yahweh is pleased with you.
If you marry a good woman, that is like finding a wonderful thing;
it shows that Yahweh is pleased with you.
We can inherit a house or money from our parents when they die,
but only Yahweh can give someone a sensible wife.
Let your wife be a source of great pleasure to you.
◄Be happy/Enjoy sex► with the woman whom you married when you were both young.
She is as pretty and graceful as a young female deer.
Allow her breasts to always satisfy you.
Allow her lovemaking to excite you.
What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey,
and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,
but the result of being with her will be bitter like gall
and injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.
If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are.
Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.
She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a long life.
She walks down a crooked path,
and she does not realize that she is on the wrong road.
So now, my sons, listen to me.
◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
Run away from immoral women!
Do not go near the doors of their houses!
If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation►
and that woman’s husband will not act mercifully toward you;
he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!
What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey,
and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,
but the result of being with her will be bitter like gall
and injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.
If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are.
Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.
She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a long life.
She walks down a crooked path,
and she does not realize that she is on the wrong road.
Run away from immoral women!
Do not go near the doors of their houses!
If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation►
and that woman’s husband will not act mercifully toward you;
he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!
Foreigners will take your money,
and all the good things that you have worked for will ◄end up in their hands/become their possessions►.
And when you are about to die,
you will groan with severe pain
because diseases that you have gotten from being immoral will be destroying your body.
Then you will say, "I hated it when people tried to correct me.
I despised people when they reproved/rebuked me.
I did not heed what my teachers said!
I paid no attention to those who tried to teach me something about my behavior.
Now I am almost ruined,
and I will be disgraced in public gatherings."
She is as pretty and graceful as a young female deer.
Allow her breasts to always satisfy you.
Allow her lovemaking to excite you.
My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman!
Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!
No! And in the same way, anyone who ◄sleeps with/has sex with► another man’s wife will suffer for doing that.
He will certainly [LIT] be punished severely.
But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish,
because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.
But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish,
because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.
That woman’s husband will wound him badly,
and other people will despise him.
His shame will never end.
Because that woman’s husband will ◄be jealous/not want anyone else to sleep with her►, he will become furious,
and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully toward the man who slept with his wife.
And he will not accept any bribe/money, even if it is a big bribe, to ◄appease him/cause him to stop being angry►.
A good wife is one who causes her husband to be greatly honored,
but a wife who does things that cause her husband to be ashamed will destroy him like [SIM] cancer destroys his bones.
People plan what they want to do,
but Yahweh directs/determines what they will really be able to do.
It is better to live in the corner of an attic/housetop by yourself
than to live inside the house with a wife who is always nagging.
Praise for a good wife
It is very difficult for a man to [RHQ] find a wife who is good and who is capable of doing many things.
Any woman who is like that is worth more than jewels.
Bíblia e casamento
Deus abomina o divórcio. A aliança matrimonial é reflexo da aliança de Deus com seu povo — sagrada e eterna.
It is certainly [RHQ] Yahweh who joined you together. Your spirits and your bodies belong to him. So what he wants [RHQ] from you are godly children. So make sure that each of you men remain ◄with/loyal to► the woman that you married when you were young.
Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelis belong, says, "I hate divorce!" So if you men divorce your wives, you are overwhelming them by being cruel to them. So be sure that you are ◄not disloyal/remain united► to your wives. That is what the Commander of the armies of angels says.
Do not get involved with people who do not honor God.
Do not ◄team up/have a close relationship► with anyone who does not trust in Christ. I say this because we who trust in Christ and do what is right should not [RHQ] want to do things with wicked people. Or to say it in another way, just like light and darkness never join together, so those who belong to Christ and those who belong to Satan should never join together [RHQ].
God wants you, by your behaving in a sexually pure way, to show that you completely belong to him.
God wants you to live pure lives that will show that you completely belong to him. He wants you to avoid doing any sexually immoral acts (OR, avoid being sexually immoral in any way). That is, he wants each one of you to know how to control your own sexual desires [EUP]. He wants you to live pure lives that all people will see as good. You must not lustfully desire to do immoral acts as unbelievers [MTY] do who do not obey God.
Make sure that none of you does evil things to anyone who has done evil to you. On the contrary, you must always try to do good things for each other (OR, to fellow believers) and to everyone else.
He condemns those who are sexually immoral and those who are homosexuals. He condemns those who kidnap/steal people in order to make them slaves. He condemns those who lie and those who promise something strongly but do not do what they promised. He condemns every other action that is contrary to our true teaching.
Since that is a task that others should respect, an overseer must live in such a way that no one can truly ◄say that he has done anything that is wrong/find fault with him►. Specifically, he must be faithful to his wife. He must think clearly about what he does. He must be able to control his behavior. He must be sensible. He must be dignified/respectable. He must welcome and care for guests. He must be able to teach God’s truth well.
Deacons must be faithful to their wives, and they must lead well and care well for their children and other people in their houses.
Appoint as elders men whom no one can justly criticize.
When you appoint men as elders, you must choose men whom no one can justly accuse of habitually doing what is wrong (OR, whom everyone speaks well of). Specifically, appoint men who have been faithful to their wives. Appoint men whose children faithfully obey them. Do not appoint men whose children habitually do all the things that their bodies urge them to do, or who refuse to obey their parents.
Various laws
"When some man has recently become married, he must not be required to become a soldier in the army or be required to do any other work for the government for one year after being married. He should stay happily at home with his wife for that year.
Laws about divorcing and remarrying
"Suppose a man marries a woman and later decides that he does not want her because there is something about her that he doesn’t like. And suppose he writes on paper that he is divorcing her, and he gives the paper to her [SYN] and sends her away from his house.
Rules concerning sex
"Suppose a man marries a young woman and has sex with her and later decides that he does not want her any more, and he says false things about her, and claims that she was not a virgin when he married her. If that happens, the young woman’s parents must take the sheet that was on the bed when that man and their daughter were married, which still has bloodstains on it, and show it to the elders of the city at the ◄gate of/central meeting place in► the city. Then the father of the young woman must say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife. But now he says that he doesn’t want her any more. And he has falsely said that she was not a virgin when he married her. But look! Here is what proves that my daughter was a virgin! Look at the bloodstains on the sheet where they slept the night that they were married!’ And he will show the sheet to the elders.
"Do not have sex with any of your father’s other wives, because that would disgrace your father.
"Do not ◄defile yourself/make yourself unacceptable to me► by having sex with someone else’s wife.
‘If a man commits adultery with some other man’s wife, both of them, the man and the woman, must be executed.
‘If two men have sex together, they have done something detestable. They must both be executed, they will be responsible for their own deaths [MTY].
You priests must not marry women who have been prostitutes or who have been divorced from their husbands, because you priests are ◄set apart for me/holy►.
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins. You priests must not marry widows or prostitutes or divorced women, because if you did that, if you later have sons, they would not be acceptable to be priests among your people. You must marry only virgins from among your own people. I am Yahweh, who sets priests apart to be holy.’"
Exemplos bíblicos
O Cântico dos Cânticos celebra o amor conjugal. A Bíblia honra o casamento em toda a sua beleza e profundidade.
Keep me close to you,
like [SIM] a seal on your heart,
or like [SIM] a bracelet on your arm.
Our love for each other is as powerful as death,
it is as enduring as the grave.
It is as though our love for each other bursts into flames
and burns like a hot fire.
Nothing can extinguish our love for each other,
not even a flood.
If a man tried to cause a woman to love him by saying he would give her everything that is in his house,
she would refuse.
Nothing can extinguish our love for each other,
not even a flood.
If a man tried to cause a woman to love him by saying he would give her everything that is in his house,
she would refuse.
My darling, you are completely beautiful;
your body is perfectly formed!
Your breasts are as beautiful [SIM] as two ◄fawns/young gazelles►
that eat grass among lilies.
My bride [DOU], you who are dearer to me than my sister, you have captured my affection [IDM]
by only once quickly looking at me,
and by one strand of jewels in your necklace.
Put your left arm under my head
and with your right arm hold me close.
The young woman speaks to her lover
Kiss me on my lips,
because your love for me is more delightful than wine.
Enjoy living with your wife whom you love, all during the time that God has given to you to be alive here on this earth. And even though it is difficult to understand why many things happen, enjoy doing the work that you do here on this earth.
Enjoy living with your wife whom you love, all during the time that God has given to you to be alive here on this earth. And even though it is difficult to understand why many things happen, enjoy doing the work that you do here on this earth.
Having someone work with you is better than being by yourself all the time.
If you have a friend, he can help you to do your work.
If you fall down, he can help you get up again.
But if you fall down when you are alone, it will be difficult for you,
because there will be no one to help you stand up.
Similarly, if two people sleep together,
they can keep each other warm.
But someone who sleeps alone will certainly not [RHQ] be warm.
Someone who is alone can easily be attacked and defeated by another person,
but two people can help each other and ◄resist/defend themselves against► someone who attacks them.
Three people can defend themselves even more easily,
like a rope that is made from three cords is harder to break than a rope made from two cords.
Juízo e restauração
O Senhor é testemunha do pacto conjugal. Casamentos quebrados podem ser restaurados pelo poder e graça de Deus.
But you belong to me.
So I will take you, one from each city and two from each clan,
and bring you back to Jerusalem
from the countries to which you were exiled.
Hosea’s wife and children
When Yahweh first began to give messages to me to tell to the people of Israel, he said to me, "Go and marry a prostitute. But some of her children will be born as a result of her having sex with men to whom she is not married. That will illustrate how the people of Israel have turned away from me and worship ◄idols/other gods►."
Israel will be punished and later restored
Yahweh also said to me, "I want you to accuse the Israeli people.
It is as though [MET] this nation is your mother,
but this nation is no longer as though it is [MET] my wife,
and it is no longer as though [MET] I am its husband.
Tell the Israeli people that they must stop acting like a prostitute by worshiping other gods;
they must stop showing by their behavior that they ◄are unfaithful to/have abandoned► me [MET].
I say that what you have done is as though [MET] you took off your clothes and acted like a prostitute and had sex with men who are not your husband. What I mean is that you have been worshiping detestable idols, and you have murdered [MTY] your own children to be sacrifices to them. So what I am going to do is as though I will gather those who you think have loved you and those whom you hated. I will gather them around you to attack you, and what I will do is as though I will strip your clothes off you, and they will see you when you are completely naked.
But because the king had taken Sarai, Abram’s wife, Yahweh caused the king and the others in his household to be inflicted with terrible diseases. When the king realized why that was happening, he summoned Abram and said to him, "Why did you do this to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Sarai gave Abram a slave woman to be another wife, and that woman gave birth to Ishmael
Up to that time, Abram’s wife Sarai had not given birth to any children for Abram. But she had a female slave from Egypt, whose name was Hagar. So one day Sarai said to Abram, "Listen to me! Yahweh has not allowed me to become pregnant. So ◄sleep with/have sex with► [EUP] my slave Hagar. Perhaps she will bear children whom I can consider to be mine." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said. So Abram ◄slept with/had sex with► Hagar, his wife Sarai’s slave from Egypt. This happened ten years after they went to live in Canaan land. Sarai gave Hagar to her husband to be his secondary wife.
Then the leader of the group said, "I will return to you ◄about this time/in the springtime► next year, and to your amazement, your wife Sarah will have an infant son." It happened that Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind the one who was speaking. Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was far past the time of when she could bear children. So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "My body is worn out, and my husband is old. So how can I have the pleasure of having a child?" [RHQ]
But Onan knew if he did that, any children who would be born would not be considered to be his. So every time he had sex [EUP] with his brother’s widow, he spilled his semen on the ground, so that she would not get pregnant and produce children for his older brother. Yahweh considered that what he did was wicked, so he caused him to die also.
Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba. Then he ◄slept/had sexual relations► with her, and she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. David named that son Solomon. Yahweh loved that little boy.
But Abijah became more powerful. He married 14 wives and had 22 sons and 16 daughters.
‘That is the ritual that must be performed when a woman who is married has been unfaithful to her husband, or when a man is jealous and suspects that his wife has had sex with another man. The priest must tell that woman to stand at the altar in my presence and obey these instructions.
Yahweh promised that his people would return to Jerusalem
Yahweh says, "You people of Jerusalem [MET], start to sing!
You who are like [MET] women who have never given birth to children, sing loudly and shout joyfully,
because you, who are like [MET] childless women who have been abandoned by their husbands, will soon have more children
than women who have never had any children.
I greatly rejoice because of what Yahweh has done!
I am happy,
because he has saved me and declared that I am righteous;
those blessings are like [MET] a robe that he has put on me.
I am as happy as [SIM] a bridegroom in his wedding suit,
or a bride wearing jewels.
Anna praised God for Jesus and told others about him.
There was also in the Temple courtyard a very old woman named Anna. She was a prophetess. Her father Phanuel was a member of the tribe of Asher. After she had been married seven years, her husband died.
"When one of you (sg) is invited by someone {someone invites one of you (sg)} to a wedding feast, do not sit in a place where important people sit. Perhaps the man giving the feast has invited a man more important than you (sg).
For example, because God considers that a marriage lasts until either the husband or the wife dies, he considers that any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman is committing adultery. He also considers that any man who marries a woman who has been divorced by her husband {whose husband has divorced her} is also committing adultery."
At that time people ate and drank as usual, and they got married as usual, up until the day when Noah and his family entered the big boat. But then the flood came and destroyed all those who were not in the boat.
Jesus stood up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one said you must die for your sin?" She said, "No, sir, no one." Then Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go home now, and do not continue your sinful life any longer!"]
God will reward those who, because of being my disciples, have left behind a house or plot of ground, their brothers, their sisters, their father, their mother, their children, or any other family [MTY] members. God will give them 100 times as many benefits as they have given up. And they will live with God eternally.
In order to discredit the idea that dead people will live again, they said to him, "Teacher, Moses wrote in the Scriptures, ‘If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the dead man’s widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child will be considered the descendant of the man who died, and in that way the dead man will have descendants.’ The fact is that the woman will not be the wife of any of them, because after God causes all dead people to live again, no one will be married. Instead, people will be like the angels in heaven. They do not marry.
It is people’s innermost beings that cause them to think things that are evil, to murder people, to commit adultery, to commit other sexual sins, to steal things, to testify falsely, and to speak evil about others.
Those who think evil thoughts and do evil things will not receive the blessings of God’s rule, but God’s Spirit produces many good qualities in our lives.
You already know how people think and act [PRS] because of their self-directed nature. These are some of the things that they do: People are sexually immoral. People commit unnatural sexual acts. People act indecently. People worship false gods and things that represent those gods. People perform ◄rituals in order that evil spirits might act for them/sorcery►. People are hostile to others. People quarrel with each other. People are ◄jealous/resent other people’s status►. People behave angrily. People try ◄to get others to think highly of them/to exalt themselves► and ◄do not consider what others want/act selfishly►. People do not associate with others. People associate only with those who agree with them. People want what others have. People get drunk. People ◄revel/participate in wild parties►. And people do other things like these. I warn you now, just like I warned you previously, that the ones who constantly act and think like that will not receive what God has for his own people when he begins to rule over us.
Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM];
she will give birth to many children.
Your children who sit around your table
will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it [SIM].
For example, a woman is required by the law {the law requires a woman} to obey and be faithful to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is freed from having to {no longer has to} obey the law about remaining married to her husband. Therefore, a woman will be called {people will call a woman} an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she no longer has to obey that law. Then she will not be an adulteress if she marries another man.
Nevertheless, I have this complaint about you: You tolerate that woman among your members who is like [MET] that wicked queen Jezebel who lived long ago. She says that she ◄is a prophetess/proclaims messages that come directly from God►, but through what she teaches she is deceiving my servants. She is urging them to commit sexual immorality and to eat food that they have offered to idols.
They did not stop murdering people, or practicing sorcery, or acting in sexually immoral ways, or stealing things.
"Praise him because he judges truly and justly!"
"He has punished the very evil cities that are like a prostitute,
because their people persuaded the other people of earth [MTY] to act immorally and idolatrously like they do."
"Praise him because he has punished them for murdering his servants [MTY]!"