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.
He answered them, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one 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.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, so that he might present her to himself as a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and unblemished. In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cares for it, just as the Lord does for the church,
Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head and Savior of the church, which is his body. Just as the church submits to Christ, so wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Nevertheless, each man among you must love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be embittered against them.
In the same way, wives, submit to your own husbands, so that, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won without a word by the way you live when they observe your pure and reverent conduct.
Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker partner, since they are heirs with you of 24 ¦ a living grace 𝔐30the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
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.
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote to me: "It is good for a man not to touch a woman." But because of the cases of fornication, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise 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 time, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer and then come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Now to the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband (but if she does separate, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and a husband must not divorce his wife.
But if the unbelieving spouse separates, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not enslaved in such cases. God has called us to live in peace. For how do yoʋ know, O wife, whether yoʋ will save yoʋr husband? Or how do yoʋ know, O husband, whether yoʋ will save yoʋr wife?
For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.