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.
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
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.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
For which thing put ye away leasing, and speak ye truth each man with his neighbour, for we be members each to other [or together].
Be ye wroth, and do not do sin [or do not ye sin]; the sun fall not down on your wrath.
Do not ye give stead to the devil.
He that stole, now steal he not; but more rather travail he in working with his hands that that is good, that he have whereof he shall give to the needy.
Each evil word go not out of your mouth; but if any is good to the edification of faith, that it give grace to men that hear.
And do not ye make the Holy Ghost of God sorry, [or heavy], in which ye be marked in the day of redemption.
All bitterness, and wrath, and indignation, and cry, and blasphemy be taken away from you, with all malice;
and be ye together benign, [or of good will], merciful, forgiving together, as also God forgave to you in Christ.
Men, love ye your wives, and do not ye be bitter to them.
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.
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
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.
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
Drink thou water of thy cistern, and the floods of thy well.
Thy wells be streamed forth; and part thy waters in streets.
Have thou alone them [or them alone]; and aliens be not thy partners.
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.
My son, why art thou deceived of an alien woman; and art fostered in the bosom of another?
But I say to you, that every man that seeth a woman [for] to covet her, hath now done lechery by her in his heart.
But I say to you, that every man that leaveth his wife, except [the] cause of fornication, maketh her to do lechery, and he that weddeth the forsaken wife, doeth adultery.
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].
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.
But to others I say, not the Lord. If any brother hath an unfaithful, [or heathen], wife, and she consenteth to dwell with him, leave he her not.
Flee ye fornication; all sin what-ever sin a man doeth, is without the body; but he that doeth fornication, sinneth against his 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.
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.
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.
nothing [doing] by strife, neither by vain glory, but in meekness, deeming each other to be higher [in virtue] than himself;
not beholding each by himself what things be his own, but those things that be of other men.
Use thou life with the wife which thou lovest, in all the days of the life of thine unstableness, that be given to thee under the sun, in all the time of thy vanity; for this is thy part in thy life and [thy] travail, by which thou travailest under the sun.
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.
See ye, that no man yield evil for evil to any man; but evermore pursue ye that that is good, each to other, and to all men.
But if it seemeth evil to you, that ye serve the Lord, choosing is given to you; choose ye to you today that, that pleaseth, whom ye owe most to serve; whether to gods, which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, whether to the gods of Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; forsooth I, and mine house, shall serve the Lord.
Do not ye bear the yoke with unfaithful men. For what parting, [or communing], of rightwiseness with wickedness? or what fellowship of light to darknesses?
Charity is patient, it is benign; charity envieth not, it doeth not wickedly, it is not blown [with pride],
it is not covetous, [or ambitious, or covetous of worships], it seeketh not those things that be his own [or her own], it is not stirred to wrath, it thinketh not evil,
it joyeth not on [or in] wicked-ness, but it joyeth together to [or with] truth;
it suffereth all things, it believeth all things, it hopeth all things, it sustaineth all things.