O papel da mulher
A Bíblia honra a mulher como colaboradora essencial no plano de Deus. De Provérbios 31 às mulheres do Novo Testamento, a Escritura celebra a sabedoria, a força e a fé feminina.
A mulher virtuosa
Mulher virtuosa, quem a achará? Seu valor excede o de rubis. Ela é sábia, trabalhadora, generosa e temida pelo Senhor.
Praise for a good wife
It is very difficult for a man to [RHQ] find a wife who is good and who is capable of doing many things.
Any woman who is like that is worth more than jewels.
Her husband completely trusts her,
and because of her, he has everything that he needs [LIT].
She never does anything that would harm him;
she does good things for him all the days of her life.
She finds wool and flax in the market,
and she enjoys spinning it to make yarn.
She is like [SIM] a ship that brings from far away goods/merchandise to sell,
because she buys food that comes from far away.
She gets up before dawn to prepare food for her family.
Then she plans the work that her servant girls will do on that day.
She goes out and looks at a field that someone wants to sell;
and if it is a good field, she buys it.
She buys grapevines [MTY] with the money that she has earned,
and then she plants them.
She works very hard [IDM];
she makes her arms strong by the work she does.
She knows when she is getting a good profit from her business.
When it is necessary, she works [MTY] until it is late at night.
She holds the ◄spindle/rod which twists the thread that she is making►,
and then she spins the thread [MTY] that she will use.
She generously helps [MTY] those who are poor and needy [DOU].
She makes clothes from linen cloth and sells them.
She sells sashes to shop owners.
She is strong in her character and respected/dignified,
and she ◄laughs at/is not afraid of► what will happen in the future.
When she speaks, she says what is wise.
When she gives instructions,
she speaks [MTY] kindly (OR, faithfully).
She watches over everything that is done in her household,
and she [IDM] is never lazy.
Wise women [PRS] hold their families together by the wise things that they do,
but foolish women ruin their families by the foolish things that they do.
Warnings about sinful people
My son, pay attention to what I, your father, am teaching you.
And do not reject what your mother teaches you.
Beleza interior
A beleza verdadeira não é exterior, mas o caráter incorruptível de um espírito manso e tranquilo. Isso tem grande valor diante de Deus.
You women should submit yourselves to your husbands, even if they are not believers, and make your inner beings/hearts beautiful with qualities that will not fade away.
You women believers, just like slaves should submit themselves to their masters, submit yourselves to your husbands. Do that in order that if any of them do not believe the message about Christ, they may become believers without it being necessary for you to say anything to them about their relationship to God. They will believe in Christ when they see that you respect them and that your way of life is pure. Do not be trying to make yourselves beautiful by decorating the outside of your bodies, such as ◄by the way you comb your hair/by your hair style► or by wearing gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, make your ◄inner beings/hearts► beautiful with qualities/attitudes that will not fade away. Specifically, have a humble and quiet/calm attitude, which is something that God considers to be very valuable. ◄The devout women/The women who habitually worshipped God► who lived long ago and who trusted in God made themselves beautiful by having attitudes like that, and by being submissive to their husbands. Sarah, for example, obeyed her husband Abraham and called him ‘my master’. You will be as though you are [MET] her daughters if you do what is right and are not afraid of what your husbands or anyone else may do to you because you are believers.
You men must live in an appropriate way with your wives, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
You men who are believers, just like your wives should respect you, you should conduct your lives in an appropriate way with them. Treat them respectfully, realizing that they are usually weaker than you are, and realizing that ◄they share with you/both of you have► the gift that God has kindly given to you, which is eternal life. Do this so that nothing will hinder you from praying (OR, hinder God ◄from answering/from doing what you ask for► when you pray).
I would like that the clothing that women wear be ◄modest and sensible/proper and appropriate► [DOU]. I want them to not fix their hair in fancy/elaborate ways, nor wear gold jewelry, nor pearls, nor expensive clothing in order that they may make themselves attractive.
Their wives (OR, The women who are deacons) likewise must conduct themselves suitably/appropriately. Specifically, they must be ◄serious/worthy that people respect them►. They must not speak evil about people. They must not drink a lot of alcohol. They must be faithful in everything that they do.
Parceria e dignidade
Deus criou homem e mulher à sua imagem. A mulher não é inferior, mas parceira e co-herdeira da graça da vida.
So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female. God blessed them, saying, "Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground."
Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him."
Then Yahweh said to the woman, "You will have great pain when you give birth to children; you will suffer great pain as your children are being born [DOU]. You will greatly desire your husband to show affection for you, but he will rule over you."
However, remember that even though God created the first woman from the first man, all other men have been born from women. So men cannot be independent of women, nor can women be independent of men. But all things, including men and women, come from God.
Instructions about how wives and husbands, children and parents, and slaves and masters should behave toward each other.
Because husbands have authority over [MET] their wives, just as all of us believers form one group under the authority of Christ, you women should submit yourselves to the authority of your husbands just as you submit yourselves to the Lord Jesus. He is the one who saves all his people from the guilt of their sins. Just like all believers submit themselves to the authority of Christ, the women must submit themselves completely to the authority of their husbands.
Similarly, tell the older women that they should behave ◄in a reverent manner that shows that they are devoted to God/in a manner that honors God►; specifically, they should not ◄slander others/talk evil about others►, and they should not ◄be drinking much/habitually drinking► alcohol. Tell them that they should teach the younger women what is good, in order that they may love their husbands and their children. Older women should teach younger women to control what they say and do and to be pure in every way, to be good workers at home and submissive to their own husbands. The younger women should behave like this in order that no one will speak against the message about God.