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 commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Whoever says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother is a liar. For NA SBL TH WH 4.3% {Note: In the main Greek text this sentence literally reads, For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?}if anyone does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Whoever loves his brother abides 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 him who has begotten also loves the one begotten of him.
Since you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth through the Spirit, resulting in genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply, from SBL WH 0.6%a pure heart.
Comunhão e edificação
Não abandoneis a congregação. Encorajem-se mutuamente, cantem juntos e instruam-se na Palavra de Cristo.
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to the Lord with gratitude in your hearts.
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to 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.
"If yoʋr brother sins against yoʋ, go show him his fault between yoʋ and him alone. If he listens to yoʋ, yoʋ have gained yoʋr brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others with yoʋ, so that every matter may be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses.
"If yoʋr brother sins against yoʋ, go show him his fault between yoʋ and him alone. If he listens to yoʋ, yoʋ have gained yoʋr brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others with yoʋ, so that every matter may be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector. Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them."
My heavenly Father will also do the same to you if each one of you, from your hearts, does not forgive his brother for his trespasses."
The King will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
For whoever does the will of God is my brother and my sister and mother."
Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Speak to younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, in all purity.
But if anyone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.