Comunhão com os irmãos
A comunhão com os irmãos é marca da igreja verdadeira. Os cristãos primevos perseveravam na comunhão — partindo pão, orando e encorajando-se mutuamente.
Comunhão verdadeira
Perseveravam na doutrina dos apóstolos e na comunhão. A comunhão autêntica envolve amor sacrificial e acolhimento mútuo.
Those who accepted what he’d said were baptized, adding about three thousand people to the group of believers that day.
They committed themselves to what the apostles had taught them, and to the fellowship of the believers, "breaking bread" and praying together. Everyone was in awe, and many miracles and signs were done through the apostles. All the believers were together and shared everything they had. They sold their property and belongings, sharing the proceeds with everyone as they needed. Day after day they continued to meet together in the Temple, and ate together in their homes. They enjoyed their meals humbly and happily. They praised God, and everyone thought favorably of them. Every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
Let’s think about how we can motivate one another to love and to do what is good. We should not give up meeting together, as some have done. In fact we should be encouraging one another, especially as you see the End approaching.
How good, how delightful it is when people live together in harmony!
This is as precious as the oil used to anoint Aaron, running down from his head onto his beard, onto the collar of his clothes.
It’s like the dew of Mount Hermon that falls on Zion’s mountains. That is where the Lord gave his blessing of life that lasts forever.
Our friendship was so close. We used to have great talks together as we walked with everyone to the house of God.
Two are better than one, for they can help each other in their work. If one of them falls down, the other can help them up, but how sad it is for someone who falls down and doesn’t have anyone to help them up. In the same way, if two people lie down together, they keep each other warm, but you can’t keep yourself warm if you’re alone. Someone fighting against one other person may win, but not if they are fighting against two. A cord made of three strands can’t be torn apart quickly.
Amor fraternal
Amai-vos com amor fraternal sincero. Encorajem-se mutuamente e carreguem os fardos uns dos outros.
Now that you’ve dedicated yourselves by following the truth, love each other sincerely like a true family.
Show hospitality to one another, and don’t complain.
Be completely dedicated to each other in your love as family; value others more than yourselves.
So then, if you’re encouraged by being in Christ, if you’re comforted by his love, if you share together in the Spirit, if you have compassion and sympathy— then make my joy complete by thinking the same way and loving the same way, spiritually united and having one purpose.
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.
Be kind and compassionate to each other, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom! Just don’t use your freedom as an excuse to indulge your sinful human nature—instead serve one another in love.
So encourage and strengthen one another, just as you are doing.
If we claim to share this friendship with him and yet go on living in darkness, we’re lying, and not living in the truth. But if we are living in the light, as he is in the light, then we share in this friendship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, makes us clean from every sin.
Finally, brothers and sisters, I say goodbye. Continue to improve spiritually. Encourage one another. Be in agreement. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
I am giving you a new command: Love one another. Love one another in the same way I have loved you.