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.
34 I give you a new commandment, Love one another!35 By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."
7 Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.
20 If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.
10 But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.
1 Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Fathers Child.
22 Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.
Comunhão e edificação
Não abandoneis a congregação. Encorajem-se mutuamente, cantem juntos e instruam-se na Palavra de Cristo.
25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.
16 Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
19 when you talk together; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord;
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.
15 "If your brother sins against you, go and show him, between yourself and him alone. If he listens, you have won your brother.16 "But if he will not listen to you, take one or two others along, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he will not listen to them, tell the church;
15 "If your brother sins against you, go and show him, between yourself and him alone. If he listens, you have won your brother.16 "But if he will not listen to you, take one or two others along, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he will not listen to them, tell the church;17 "but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.18 "I tell you all in solemn truth that whatever you forbid upon earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.19 "And again I tell you that if two of you on earth symphonize your praying concerning anything for which you have asked, it shall be done for you by my Father in heaven.20 "For wherever there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I among them."
35 "So will my heavenly Father do to you also, unless from your heart each one of you forgive his brother."
40 "In solemn truth I tell you, the King will answer them, that inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my brothers, you have done it unto me.
35 "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."
1 Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,2 the older women as mothers, the younger women as sisters in all purity.
8 But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.