O marido: qual é o papel e o dever dele segundo a Bíblia?
O papel bíblico do marido
Na Bíblia, o papel do marido é definido pelo amor sacrificial e pela liderança servidora, tendo como modelo a entrega de Cristo pela igreja. Esse chamado exige fidelidade conjugal, honra mútua e a renúncia diária do egoísmo para zelar pela família.
Longe de qualquer autoritarismo, a autoridade bíblica no lar é orientada para o serviço e o cuidado prático com a vida física, emocional e espiritual da esposa.
Amor sacrificial como padrão
O apóstolo Paulo orienta o marido a amar a própria esposa com a mesma disposição de entrega demonstrada por Jesus. Esse amor não depende do merecimento nem de circunstâncias favoráveis; é uma decisão ativa de proteger, cuidar e valorizar a esposa como ao próprio corpo. A ordem bíblica proíbe expressamente a frieza, a grosseria e o tratamento áspero.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,(Ephesians 5:25)
So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,(Ephesians 5:28,29)
Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.(Ephesians 5:33)
Husbands, love your wives and do not become bitter against them.(Colossians 3:19)
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Fidelidade e integridade no casamento
A aliança matrimonial foi instituída por Deus como uma união sagrada e exclusiva. A fidelidade do marido começa na integridade dos olhos e do coração, rejeitando toda forma de impureza, fornicação ou pornografia. Marido e mulher pertencem um ao outro, devendo cultivar a intimidade e a comunhão sem dar margem à divisão ou à quebra do pacto conjugal.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.(Hebrews 13:4)
Drink water from your own cistern,
And fresh water from your own well.
Should your springs overflow into the street,
Streams of water in the public squares?
Let them be yours alone,
And not for strangers with you.
Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Like a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be exhilarated always with her love.
For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress,
And embrace the breasts of a foreigner?(Proverbs 5:15-20)
but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(Matthew 5:28)
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate."(Matthew 19:6)
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.(1 Corinthians 7:3,4)
Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.(1 Corinthians 6:18)
Convivência sábia e honra à esposa
O apóstolo Pedro ensina o homem a conviver com a esposa "com entendimento", reconhecendo o seu valor com sensibilidade e respeito. A esposa é apresentada como co-herdeira da mesma graça da vida divina; tratá-la com desconsideração traz prejuízo direto à comunhão com Deus, a ponto de impedir as orações do homem. A postura do marido no dia a dia determina a segurança emocional e espiritual de todo o lar.
You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.(1 Peter 3:7)
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.(Genesis 2:24)
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.(Philippians 2:3,4)
He who finds a wife finds a good thing
And obtains favor from the Lord.(Proverbs 18:22)
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your futility; for this is your reward in life and in your work which you have labored under the sun.(Ecclesiastes 9:9)
But if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, which were beyond the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."(Joshua 24:15)
O padrão bíblico para o marido retorna sempre ao mandamento da entrega graciosa: amar a esposa como Cristo amou a igreja (Efésios 5:25).
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