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Irmãos: o que a Bíblia ensina sobre o amor fraternal

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O amor fraternal como marca de quem segue a Cristo

Na Bíblia, irmão define tanto o parente de sangue quanto a pessoa unida a você pela fé em Jesus. Esse vínculo não depende de simpatia natural: o amor mútuo é a prova concreta de discipulado apresentada pelo próprio Jesus e pelos apóstolos. Amar a Deus e rejeitar o irmão é uma contradição que o texto bíblico desmascara com firmeza.

I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another."(John 13:34,35)

Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.(1 John 4:7)

If someone says, "I love God," and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.(1 John 4:20)

The one who loves his brother and sister remains in the Light, and there is nothing in him to cause stumbling.(1 John 2:10)

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him.(1 John 5:1)

Since you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brothers and sisters, fervently love one another from the heart,(1 Peter 1:22)

Convivência, amizade e edificação no dia a dia

A fé cristã não foi planejada para o isolamento. A convivência na comunidade serve para instruir, consolar e afiar o caráter, da mesma forma que o ferro afia o ferro. Manter laços leais e perseverar no convívio protege o cristão do esfriamento espiritual.

not abandoning our own meeting together, as is the habit of some people, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.(Hebrews 10:25)

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.(Colossians 3:16)

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord;(Ephesians 5:19)

A friend loves at all times,

And a brother is born for adversity.(Proverbs 17:17)

A person of too many friends comes to ruin,

But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.(Proverbs 18:24)

Do not abandon your friend or your father’s friend,

And do not go to your brother’s house on the day of your disaster;

Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.(Proverbs 27:10)

Como confrontar o erro e perdoar a ofensa

Conflitos entre irmãos exigem atitude rápida, não silêncio ressentido nem fofoca. Tanto a Lei de Moisés quanto as instruções de Jesus em Mateus mandam procurar a pessoa a sós para corrigir o erro e buscar a reconciliação. O perdão concedido ao outro deve refletir a misericórdia que recebemos de Deus.

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may certainly rebuke your neighbor, but you are not to incur sin because of him.(Leviticus 19:17)

"Now if your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have gained your brother.But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that on thetestimony of two or three witnesses everymatter may be confirmed.And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, he is to be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

"Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."(Matthew 18:15-20)

My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart."(Matthew 18:35)

Responsabilidade na família e acolhimento aos necessitados

A fraternidade começa no sustento dos próprios parentes e no respeito dentro do lar. Além disso, Jesus expande a família de Deus para incluir todo aquele que obedece ao Pai, identificando-se pessoalmente com o cuidado prestado aos necessitados e desamparados.

Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, and to the younger men as brothers, to the older women as mothers, and to the younger women as sisters, in all purity.(1 Timothy 5:1,2)

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.(1 Timothy 5:8)

For whoever does the will of God, this is My brother, and sister, and mother."(Mark 3:35)

And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of Mine, you did it for Me.’(Matthew 25:40)

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