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.
And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that a man be alone; make we to him an helper like to himself.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
Which answered, and said to them, have ye not read, for he that made men at the beginning, made them male and female?
And he said, for this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw [or cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
Whether one made not, and the residue of spirit is his? and what seeketh one, no but the seed of God? Therefore keep ye your spirit, and do not thou despise the wife of thy youth;
Papéis no casamento
O marido ama e a mulher respeita. Ambos se submetem voluntariamente a Deus e um ao outro, em parceria e unidade.
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,
to give the church glorious to himself, that it had no wem, [or spot], nor rivelling [or wrinkle], or any such thing, but that it be holy and undefouled.
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
Women, be they subject to their husbands, as to the Lord,
for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so women to their husbands in all things.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
Women, be ye subject to your husbands, as it behooveth in the Lord.
Men, love ye your wives, and do not ye be bitter to them.
Also women be they subject to their husbands; that if any man, that is, husbands, believe not to the word, by the conversation of women they be won without word.
And behold ye in dread your holy conversation.
Also men dwell together, and by knowing [or science], give ye honour to the woman’s frailty, [or to her vessel], as to the more feeble, and as to even-heirs of grace and of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Fidelidade e união
O casamento é honroso e deve ser preservado com fidelidade. O cordão de três dobras não se rompe facilmente.
Therefore it is better, that two be together than one; for they have profit of their fellowship.
If one falleth down, he shall be underset of the tother; woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to raise him up.
And if twain sleep together, they shall be nourished together; how shall one be made hot?
And if any man hath [the] mastery against one, twain [or two] against-stand him; a threefold cord is broken of hard.
Who shall find a strong woman? the price of her is[a] far, and from the last [or utmost] ends.
The heart of her husband trusteth in her; and he shall not have need to robberies.
He that findeth a good woman, findeth a good thing; and of the Lord he shall draw up mirth. He that putteth away a good woman, putteth away a good thing; but he that holdeth an adulteress, is a fool and unwise.
Houses and riches be given of father and mother; but a prudent wife is given properly of the Lord.
A diligent woman is a crown to her husband; and rot is in the bones of that woman, that doeth things worthy of confusion.
Thy vein be blessed; and be thou glad with the woman of thy young waxing age.
An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.
Permanecer juntos
O que Deus uniu, o homem não separe. A Bíblia protege o casamento e orienta sobre convivência, perdão e perseverança conjugal.
But of those things that ye have written to me, it is good to a man to touch not a woman.
But for fornication each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
Do not ye defraud each to other, but peradventure of consent for a time, that ye give attention to prayer; and again turn again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your uncontinence.
But to them that be joined in matrimony, I command, not I, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from the husband;
and that if she departeth, that she dwell unwedded, or be reconciled to her husband; and the husband forsake not the wife.
That if the unfaithful departeth, depart he. For why the brother or sister is not subject to servage in such; for God hath called us in peace.
And whereof knowest thou, woman, if thou shalt make the man safe; or whereof knowest thou, man, if thou shalt make the woman safe?
For that woman that is under an husband, is bound to the law, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered [or is unbound] from the law of the husband.
When a man hath taken late a wife, he shall not go forth to battle, neither anything of the common needs shall be enjoined to him, but he shall give attention without blame to his household, that he be glad in one year with his wife.