Marido e mulher
O casamento é aliança sagrada entre marido e mulher, instituída por Deus desde o Éden. A Bíblia define papéis complementares fundados em amor, respeito e fidelidade mútua.
Instituição divina
Deus criou homem e mulher e os uniu em uma só carne. O casamento é projeto divino que reflete o amor de Cristo pela Igreja.
So in answer He said to them: "Have you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them a male and a female? And He said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be turned into one flesh.’ So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God joined together let not man separate!"
Papéis no casamento
O marido ama e a mulher respeita. Ambos se submetem voluntariamente a Deus e um ao outro, em parceria e unidade.
About husbands
Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf, in order that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water: in a word, that He might present her—the splendid Church—to Himself, not having a blemish or a wrinkle or any such thing, but that she be holy and blameless. Just so the husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own flesh; rather he nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the Church
About wives
Wives, subordinate yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord, because a man is head of his wife as also Christ is Head of the Church—He also is Preserver of the body. Yes, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also the wives should be to their own husbands in everything.
In any case, each of you individually: let each one love his own wife as himself, while the wife must respect her husband.
Fidelidade e união
O casamento é honroso e deve ser preservado com fidelidade. O cordão de três dobras não se rompe facilmente.
Permanecer juntos
O que Deus uniu, o homem não separe. A Bíblia protege o casamento e orienta sobre convivência, perdão e perseverança conjugal.
About marriage
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of the fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; similarly also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except by mutual consent for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and to prayer, and come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Mixed marriages
Now to the married I command (not I but the Lord): a wife is not to be separated from her husband (but if she does separate herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to divorce his wife.
But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate—in such cases the brother or the sister is not enslaved, but God has called us to peace. forbids divorce and remarriage. Here in verse 15 the subject is a mixed marriage where the unbeliever wants out (verses 12-14 make clear that the believer is not to take the initiative in a separation). There are those who argue that if the unbeliever leaves, the believer is free to remarry, but how can that be true? If remarriage is not allowed if a believing partner leaves (verses 10-11), with what logic can it be argued that the rule changes if the partner is an unbeliever? It simply does not follow. On the contrary, the believer is called upon to make a special effort to win the other. However, if the unbeliever is determined to leave, an effort by the believer to go along at any cost will only prolong a climate of strife, and God has called us to peace. The point of marriage is not to make one’s life a hell on earth—it is better to live alone than in unrelenting strife. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?