O marido
A Bíblia define o papel do marido com clareza: amar a esposa como Cristo amou a Igreja, ser fiel, protetor e líder servo no lar.
Amar como Cristo amou
Maridos, amai vossas mulheres como Cristo amou a Igreja e se entregou por ela. O amor do marido deve ser sacrificial e incondicional.
About husbands
Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf,
Just so the husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
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
In any case, each of you individually: let each one love his own wife as himself, while the wife must respect her husband.
Practical instruction
Therefore, having put away falsehood, ‘Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,’ for we are members of one another. ‘Be angry but do not sin’; do not let the sun set on your angry mood, nor give an opportunity to the devil. The one who steals must steal no longer, but rather let him work, doing something good with his hands, that he may have something to share with someone in need. Let no evil word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, as needed, that it may impart grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and slander be removed from you, with all malice. Rather, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Fidelidade conjugal
O casamento é honroso e o leito conjugal é santo. O marido deve ser fiel à esposa da sua juventude em pensamento e ação.
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for a case of fornication, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God joined together let not man separate!"
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 to the rest I (not the Lord) say: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.
Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man may commit is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.
Convivência com sabedoria
O marido sábio vive com a esposa com entendimento, dando-lhe honra como co-herdeira da graça. A união conjugal reflete Cristo e a Igreja.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard one another as being better than yourselves. Let each of you look out not only for his own concerns, but also for what concerns others.
Separation is a ‘must’
Do not enter a mismatch with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? And what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Love described
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud, is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious; it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all;