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.
Husbands, you should love your wives in the same way as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.
Husbands should love their wives just like this, as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself—
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,
However, each husband should love his own wife as he does himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
So reject lies, and tell the truth to each other—for we belong to each other. Don’t sin by getting angry; don’t let evening come and find you still mad— and don’t give the devil any opportunity. Thieves, stop your stealing, and do honest, productive work with your hands, so you’ll have something to give to those who need it. Don’t use bad language. Speak words that will encourage people as necessary, so that those who listen will be helped. Don’t disappoint the Holy Spirit of God that marked you as belonging to him until the day of redemption. Get rid of every kind of bitterness, rage, anger, verbal abuse, and insults, along with all forms of evil. Be kind and compassionate to each other, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
You married men, love your wives and don’t treat them badly.
You married women, respect your husbands appropriately in the Lord. You married men, love your wives and don’t treat them badly.
Above all, love one another, which is the perfect bond that will hold you together.
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.
Everyone should honor marriage. Husbands and wives should be faithful to each other. God will judge adulterers.
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets? Keep them for yourselves alone. They’re not for you to share with strangers. 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. Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?
But I tell you that everyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his mind.
But I tell you that any man who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Now they’re no longer two, but one. What God has joined together no one should separate."
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. Now, to the rest of you (and this is me speaking, not the Lord), I would say, If a Christian man has a non-Christian wife and she is willing to stay with him, he should not leave her.
Stay away from sexual immorality! All other sins that people commit are outside of the body, but sexual immorality is a sin against your 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.
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.
This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.
Don’t do anything from a spirit of selfishness or pride, but humbly think of others better than you do of yourself. None of you should be preoccupied about your own things—instead concern yourself with the interests of others too.
Enjoy life with the wife that you love—the one God gave you—during all the days of this brief life, all these passing days whose meaning is so hard to understand as you work here on earth.
If you find a wife, that’s great, and you’ll be blessed by the Lord.
Make sure none of you pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to one another, and to everyone.
But if you don’t want to worship the Lord, choose today who you want to worship! Is it going to be the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates? Or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you’re now living? But as for me and my family, we will worship the Lord!"
Don’t join together with people who don’t believe—for what connection does goodness have with wickedness? What do light and darkness have in common?
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not boastful. Love is not proud. Love does not act improperly, or insist on having its own way. Love is not argumentative and doesn’t keep a record of wrongs. Love takes no delight in evil but celebrates the truth. Love never gives up, keeps on trusting, stays confident, and remains patient whatever happens.