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 God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female.
Then the Lord God said, "It’s not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that’s like him."
This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.
Jesus replied, "Haven’t you read that God who created people in the beginning made them male and female? He said, ‘This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother, and join with his wife, and the two shall become one.’ Now they’re no longer two, but one. What God has joined together no one should separate."
Did he not make you one, and give some of his Spirit to you? And what does he want? Children of God. So watch what you do, and don’t be unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young.
Papéis no casamento
O marido ama e a mulher respeita. Ambos se submetem voluntariamente a Deus e um ao outro, em parceria e unidade.
Husbands, you should love your wives in the same way as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. He made it holy, he made it clean by washing in the water of the word, so that he could make the church his own, with no flaw or blemish or any kind of fault, but holy and blameless. Husbands should love their wives just like this, as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself— for no one ever hated his own body, but feeds it and looks after it, just as Christ does for the church,
Wives, do what your own husbands tell you to do, as you would if the Lord told you. The husband is head of the wife in the same way as Christ is head of the church—his body and its savior. In the same way that the church does what Christ says, wives should do what their husbands tell them in all things.
However, each husband should love his own wife as he does himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
You married women, respect your husbands appropriately in the Lord. You married men, love your wives and don’t treat them badly.
Wives, accept your husbands' authority in the same way, so that if some husbands refuse to accept the Word, they may still be won over without words by the way you behave, recognizing your pure and reverent behavior.
Husbands, in just the same way, be considerate to your wives as you live together with them. Though she may not be as strong as you are, you should honor her since she will inherit equally with you God’s gift of life. Make sure to do this so nothing will get in the way of your prayers.
Fidelidade e união
O casamento é honroso e deve ser preservado com fidelidade. O cordão de três dobras não se rompe facilmente.
Two are better than one, for they can help each other in their work. If one of them falls down, the other can help them up, but how sad it is for someone who falls down and doesn’t have anyone to help them up. In the same way, if two people lie down together, they keep each other warm, but you can’t keep yourself warm if you’re alone. Someone fighting against one other person may win, but not if they are fighting against two. A cord made of three strands can’t be torn apart quickly.
Who can find a strong, capable wife? She’s worth more than jewels!
Her husband has complete confidence in her, and with her he’ll never be poor.
If you find a wife, that’s great, and you’ll be blessed by the Lord.
You inherit a house and wealth from your father, but a sensible wife is a gift from the Lord.
A good wife is a crown for her husband, but one who brings shame is like rot in his bones.
May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young. May she be to you a loving deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts always be intoxicating to you; may you be drunk on her love forever.
Permanecer juntos
O que Deus uniu, o homem não separe. A Bíblia protege o casamento e orienta sobre convivência, perdão e perseverança conjugal.
Now about what you wrote to me: "It’s good not to marry." However, because of the temptation to sexual immorality, it is better that each man have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should meet his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife her husband’s. The wife’s body doesn’t just belong to her, but her husband; and similarly the husband’s body doesn’t just belong to him but his wife. So don’t deprive each other, except by mutual consent for a while—for example because you want to spend time in prayer. Afterwards come together again so that Satan won’t tempt you to sin because of your lack of self-control.
These are my instructions to those who are married—in fact not from me but the Lord: The wife should not leave her husband (or if she does, she should not remarry, or she should return to her husband); and the husband should not leave his wife.
However, if the non-Christian spouse leaves, let them leave. In such cases the Christian man or woman is not slavishly bound, for God has called us to live in peace. Wives, who knows? You may save your husband! Husbands, who knows? You may save your wife!
For example, a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he’s alive, but if he dies, she’s released from this legal obligation to him.
If a man has just got married, he is not to be sent to war or made to do any other duties. He is free to stay at home for one year and make his wife happy.