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.
Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
Become not yoked with others — unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness?
and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?
Do two walk together if they have not met?
Be not led astray; 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 the whoredom; every sin — whatever a man may commit — is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
the meats [are] for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body [is] not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
and if they have not continence — let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!
honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall 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 God saith, ‘Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper — as his counterpart.’
House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.
and above all these things, [have] love, which is a bond of the perfection,