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.
23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
14 Be all of you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an infidel?
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
33 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.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.19 What? know all of you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) which is in you, which all of you have of God, and all of you are not your own?20 For all of you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, (o. pneuma) which are God's.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that all of you stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will 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.
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an associated helper for him.
14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
14 And above all these things put on (o. agape) love, which is the bond of perfection.