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.
And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples."
God Is Love
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.
If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin.
Our Victory over the World
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.
Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.
Comunhão e edificação
Não abandoneis a congregação. Encorajem-se mutuamente, cantem juntos e instruam-se na Palavra de Cristo.
Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer.
Christ’s message in all its richness must live in your hearts. Teach and instruct one another with all wisdom. Sing psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing to God with thanksgiving in your hearts.
Speak to one another with the words of psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing hymns and psalms to the Lord with praise in your hearts.
People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.
Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?
Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers.
Do not forget your friends or your father’s friends. If you are in trouble, don’t ask a relative for help; a nearby neighbor can help you more than relatives who are 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.
When Someone Sins
"If your brother sins against you, go to him and show him his fault. But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back. But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you, so that ‘every accusation may be upheld by the testimony of two or more witnesses,’ as the scripture says.
When Someone Sins
"If your brother sins against you, go to him and show him his fault. But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back. But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you, so that ‘every accusation may be upheld by the testimony of two or more witnesses,’ as the scripture says. And if he will not listen to them, then tell the whole thing to the church. Finally, if he will not listen to the church, treat him as though he were a pagan or a tax collector.
Prohibiting and Permitting
"And so I tell all of you: what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.
"And I tell you more: whenever two of you on earth agree about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them."
And Jesus concluded, "That is how my Father in heaven will treat every one of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!’
Whoever does what God wants is my brother, my sister, my mother."
"Do not bear a grudge against others, but settle your differences with them, so that you will not commit a sin because of them.
Responsibilities toward Believers
Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as if he were your father. Treat the younger men as your brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with all purity.
But if any do not take care of their relatives, especially the members of their own family, they have denied the faith and are worse than an unbeliever.