Namoro
O namoro cristão deve ser vivido com sabedoria, pureza e propósito. A Bíblia orienta sobre escolher um cônjuge, guardar o coração e honrar a Deus em todo relacionamento.
Guardar o coração
Sobre tudo o que se deve guardar, guarda o teu coração, porque dele procedem as fontes da vida. O namoro exige vigilância e sabedoria.
Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness? and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?
Shall two walk together except they be agreed?
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Pureza e santidade
O corpo é templo do Espírito Santo. A Bíblia nos chama a fugir da imoralidade e esperar no amor com paciência e respeito mútuo.
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own? for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, ...Why should ye stir up, why awake my love, till he please?
Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
A esposa prudente vem do Senhor
Deus criou o homem e a mulher para completarem-se. A casa e os bens são herança dos pais, mas a esposa prudente vem do Senhor.
And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
And to all these add love, which is the bond of perfectness.