Irmãos
A comunhão entre irmãos é marca da igreja verdadeira. A Bíblia nos chama a amar uns aos outros como Cristo nos amou — com perdão, encorajamento e cuidado mútuo.
Amor fraternal
Um novo mandamento vos dou: que vos ameis uns aos outros. Nisto conhecerão que sois meus discípulos — pelo amor entre vós.
"I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you loveone another."
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother or sister whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
The one who loves his brother or sister remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him.
Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly, ,
Comunhão e edificação
Não abandoneis a congregação. Encorajem-se mutuamente, cantem juntos e instruam-se na Palavra de Cristo.
not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens another.
A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.
One with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
Perdão e reconciliação
Se o teu irmão pecar contra ti, vai e repreende-o a sós. O perdão e a reconciliação preservam a unidade do corpo de Cristo.
"If your brother sins against you,go tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.But if he won’t listen, take one or two others with you, so that by the testimonyof two or three witnesses every fact may be established.,
"If your brother sins against you,go tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.But if he won’t listen, take one or two others with you, so that by the testimonyof two or three witnesses every fact may be established.,If he doesn’t pay attention to them, tell the church.,If he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will have been boundin heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosedin heaven.Again, truly I tell you, if two of you on earth agree about any matter that youpray for, it will be done for youby my Father in heaven.For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them."
So also my heavenly Father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sisterfrom your heart."
"And the King will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Whoever does the will of Godis my brother and sister and mother."
"Do not harbor hatred against your brother. , Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity.
But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.