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 to you a new commandment, that ye love together, as I have loved you, and that ye love together.
In this thing all men shall know, that ye be my disciples, if ye have love together.
Most dear brethren, love we together, for charity is of God; and each that loveth his brother, is born of God, and knoweth God.
If any man saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how may he love God, whom he seeth not?
He that loveth his brother, dwelleth in light, and cause of stumbling is not in him.
Each man that believeth that Jesus is Christ, is born of God; and each man that loveth him that engendered [or that engendereth], loveth him that is born of him.
And make ye chaste your souls in obedience of charity, in love of brotherhood; of simple heart love ye together more busily.
Comunhão e edificação
Não abandoneis a congregação. Encorajem-se mutuamente, cantem juntos e instruam-se na Palavra de Cristo.
not forsaking our gathering together, as it is the custom to some men, but comforting [them], and by so much the more, by how much ye see the day nighing.
The word of Christ dwell in you plenteously, in all wisdom; and teach and admonish yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.
and speak ye to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and saying psalm in your hearts to the Lord;
Iron is whetted by iron; and a man whetteth the face of his friend.
He that is a friend, loveth in all time; and a brother is proved in anguishes.
A man friendly to fellowship shall more be a friend, than a brother.
Forsake thou not thy friend, and the friend of thy father; and enter thou not into the house of thy brother, in the day of thy torment. Better is a neighbour nigh, than a brother afar.
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.
But if thy brother sinneth against thee, go thou, and reprove him, betwixt thee and him alone; if he heareth thee, thou hast won thy brother.
And if he heareth thee not, take with thee one or twain that every word stand in the mouth of twain or three witnesses.
But if thy brother sinneth against thee, go thou, and reprove him, betwixt thee and him alone; if he heareth thee, thou hast won thy brother.
And if he heareth thee not, take with thee one or twain that every word stand in the mouth of twain or three witnesses.
And if he heareth not them, say thou to the church. But if he heareth not the church, be he as a heathen and a publican to thee.
I say to you truly, whatever things ye bind on earth, those shall be bound also in heaven; and whatever things ye unbind on earth, those shall be unbound also in heaven.
Again I say to you, that if twain of you consent on earth, of everything whatever they ask, it shall be done to them of my Father that is in heavens.
For where twain or three be gathered in my name, there I am in the middle of them. [For where two or three be gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them.]
So my Father of heaven shall do to you, if ye forgive not every man to his brother, of your hearts.
And the king answering shall say to them, Truly I say to you, as long as ye did to one of these my least brethren, ye did to me.
For who that doeth the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but reprove thou him openly, lest thou have sin on him.
Blame thou not an elder man, but beseech [him] as a father, young men as brethren;
old women as mothers, young women as sisters, in all chastity.
For if any man hath not care of his own, and mostly of his household men or meine, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unfaithful, [or heathen], man.