Corpo
O corpo é templo do Espírito Santo. A Bíblia ensina a cuidar do corpo com responsabilidade, moderação e respeito — honrando a Deus com nosso ser integral.
Templo do Espírito
Vosso corpo é templo do Espírito Santo. Glorificai a Deus no vosso corpo — ele não é vosso, foi comprado por preço.
Whether ye know not, that your members be the temple of the Holy Ghost, that is in you, whom ye have of God, and ye be not your own?
For ye be bought with great price. Glorify ye, and bear ye God in your body.
but I chastise my body, and bring it into servage [or servitude]; lest peradventure when I preach to others, I myself be made reprovable.
And if I part all my goods into the meats of poor men, and if I betake my body, so that I burn, and if I have not charity, it profiteth to me nothing.
For in one Spirit all we be baptized into one body, either Jews, either heathen, either servants, either free; and all we be filled with drink [or have drunk] in one Spirit.
For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same deed [or the same act];
so we many be one body in Christ, and each be members one of another.
Cuidar do corpo
O exercício físico é proveitoso, mas a piedade tem promessa para a vida presente e futura. Cuide do corpo com sabedoria.
For bodily exercitation is profitable to little thing; but piety is profitable to all things, that hath a promise of life that now is, and that is to come.
A joyful soul maketh liking age; a sorrowful spirit maketh dry bones.
Words well-set together is a comb of honey; health of bones is the sweetness of soul.
Be thou not wise with thyself; dread thou God, and go away from evil.
For why health shall be in thy navel, and moisting of thy bones.
For thou haddest in possession my reins; thou tookest me up from the womb of my mother.
I shall acknowledge to thee, for thou art magnified dreadfully; thy works be wonderful, and my soul shall know that full much.
My flesh and mine heart failed; God of mine heart, and my part is God without end.
The psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, my God, I wake to thee full early. My soul thirsted to thee; my flesh thirsted to thee full manyfold. In a land forsaken without way, and without water,
Corpo e espírito
O espírito está pronto, mas a carne é fraca. Não vos preocupeis com o corpo — a vida é mais do que alimento.
Wake ye, and pray ye, that ye enter not into temptation; for the spirit is ready, but the flesh is sick, [or unstable, or unsteadfast].
That if thy right eye cause thee to stumble, pull it out, and cast it from thee; for it speedeth to thee, that one of thy members perish, than that all thy body go into hell.
Therefore I say to you, that ye be not busy to your life, what ye shall eat; nor to your body, with what ye shall be clothed. Whether life is not more than meat, and the body more than the cloth?
And do not ye dread them that slay the body; for they may not slay the soul; but rather dread ye him, that may lose both soul and body into hell.
And when much people stood about, so that they trod each on other [or so that they trod each other], he began to say to his disciples, Be ye ware of the sourdough of the Pharisees, that is hypocrisy.
For nothing is covered, that shall not be showed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
For why those things that ye have said in darknesses, shall be said in light; and that that ye have spoken in [the] ear in bedchambers, shall be preached in roofs.
And I say to you, my friends, be ye not afeared of them that slay the body, and after these things have no more what they shall do.
But I shall show to you, whom ye shall dread; dread ye him, that after he hath slain, hath power to send into hell. And so I say to you, dread ye him.
Whether five sparrows be not sold for two halfpence [or two farthings]; and one of them is not in forgetting before God?
But also all the hairs of your head be numbered. Therefore do not ye dread; ye be of more price, than many sparrows.
Truly I say to you, each man that acknowledgeth me before men, man’s Son shall acknowledge him before the angels of God.
But he that denieth me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.
And each that saith a word against man’s Son [or against the Son of man], it shall be forgiven to him; but it shall not be forgiven to him, that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost.
And when they lead you into synagogues, and to magistrates, and potentates, do not ye be busy, how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say.
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in that hour, what it behooveth you to say.
And one of the people said to him, Master, say to my brother, that he part with me the heritage.
And he said to him, Man, who ordained me a doomsman, or a parter, on you? [or over you?]
And he said to them, See ye, and beware of all covetousness; for the life of a man is not in the abundance of the things, which he wieldeth.
And he told to them a likeness, and said, The field of a rich man brought forth plenteous fruits.
And he thought within himself, and said, What shall I do, for I have not whither I shall gather my fruits?
And he saith, This thing I shall do; I shall throw down my barns, and I shall make greater, and thither I shall gather all things that grow to me, and my goods.
And I shall say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods kept into full many years; rest thou, eat, drink, and make feast.
And God said to him, Fool, in this night they shall take thy life from thee [or they shall ask of thee thy soul]. And whose shall those things be, that thou hast arrayed?
So is he that treasureth to himself, and is not rich in God.
And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, do not ye be busy to your life, what ye shall eat, neither to your body, with what ye shall be clothed.
The life is more than meat, and the body more than clothing.
Behold the crows, for they sow not, neither reap, to which is neither cellar, nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much more ye be [or be ye] of more price than they.
And who of you by thinking may put [or add] one cubit to his stature?
Therefore if ye may not do that that is least, what be ye busy of other things?
Behold ye the lilies of the field, how they wax; they travail not, neither spin. And I say to you, that neither Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.
And if God clotheth thus the hay, that today is in the field, and tomorrow is cast into an oven; how much more you of little faith.
And do not ye seek, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; and do not ye be raised on high.
For folks of the world seek all these things; and your Father knoweth, that ye have need to all these things.
Nevertheless seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be cast to you.
Do not ye, little flock, dread, for it pleased to your Father to give you a kingdom.
Sell ye those things that ye have in possession [or that ye wield], and give ye alms. And make to you satchels that wax not old, treasure that faileth not in heavens, whither a thief nigh-eth not, neither moth destroyeth.
For where is thy treasure, there thine heart shall be. [Forsooth where thy treasure is, there also thine heart shall be.]
Be your loins girded above, and lanterns burning in your hands;
and be ye like to men that abide their lord, when he shall turn again from the weddings, that when he shall come, and knock, anon they open to him.
Blessed be those servants, that when the lord shall come, he shall find waking. Truly I say to you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit to [or at the] meat, and he shall go, and serve them.
And if he come in the second waking, and if he come in the third waking, and find so, those servants be blessed.
And know ye this thing, for if an husbandman knew, in what hour the thief would come, soothly he should wake, and not suffer his house to be under-mined.
And be ye ready, for in what hour ye guess not, man’s Son shall come.
And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or to all?
And the Lord said, Who, guessest thou, is a true [or a faithful] dispenser, and prudent, whom the lord hath ordained on his meine, to give them in time a measure of wheat?
Blessed is that servant, that the lord when he cometh, shall find so doing.
Verily I say to you, that on all things that he wieldeth, he shall ordain him.
That if that servant say in his heart, My lord tarrieth to come; and begin to smite children, and hand-maidens, and eat, and drink, and be filled [or full-filled] over-measure,
the lord of that servant shall come, in the day that he hopeth not, and in the hour that he knoweth not, and shall part him, and put his part with unfaithful men.
But that servant that knew the will of his lord, and made not him ready, and did not after his will, shall be beaten with many beatings.
But he that knew not, and did worthy things of strokes, shall be beaten with few. For to each man to whom much is given, much shall be asked of him; and they shall ask more of him, to whom they betook much.
I came to send fire into the earth, and what will I, but that it be kindled?
And I have to be baptized with a baptism, and how am I constrained, till that it be perfectly done?
Ween ye, [or Guess ye], that I came to give peace into [the] earth? Nay, I say to you, but parting.
For from this time there shall be five parted in one house; three shall be parted against twain, and twain shall be parted against three;
the father against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the husband’s mother against the son’s wife, and the son’s wife against her husband’s mother.
And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rising from the sun going down, anon ye say, Rain cometh; and so it is done.
And when ye see the south blowing, ye say, That heat shall be; and it is done.
Hypocrites, ye know how to prove the face of heaven and of earth, but how prove ye not this time[?].
But what and of yourselves ye deem not that that is just? [Forsooth why and of yourselves deem ye not this thing that is just?]
But when thou goest with thine adversary in the way to the prince [or to the prince in the way], do busyness to be delivered from him; lest peradventure he take thee to the doomsman, and the doomsman betake thee to the masterful asker, and the masterful asker send thee into prison.
I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence, till thou yield the last farthing.
Do thou away ire [or wrath] from thine heart, and remove thou malice from thy flesh; for why youth and lust be vain things, or vanity.
União e harmonia
O corpo é um só, mas tem muitos membros. Cristo é a cabeça; a paz de Cristo governe em vossos corações.
One body and one Spirit, as ye be called in one hope of your calling;
Women, be they subject to their husbands, as to the Lord,
for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.
And the peace of Christ enjoy in your hearts, in which ye be called in one body, and be ye kind.
And the Lord God builded the rib which he had taken from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
And Adam said, This is now a bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called virago, for she is taken of man.
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.
For which thing we fail not, for though our outer man be corrupted; nevertheless the inner man is renewed from day to day.
And he himself bare [or suffered] our sins in his body on a tree, that we be dead to sins, and live to rightwiseness, by whose wan wound ye be healed.
For all we offend in many things. If any man offendeth not in word, this is a perfect man, for also he may lead about all the body with a bridle.