O papel do homem

A Bíblia define o papel do homem na família e na sociedade: líder servidor, provedor fiel, pai presente e marido amoroso, seguindo o exemplo de Cristo.

Marido e pai

O marido deve amar a esposa como Cristo amou a Igreja. O pai é chamado a criar os filhos na disciplina e instrução do Senhor.

25 Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

Efésios 5:25

4 And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Efésios 6:4

19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.

Colossenses 3:19

7 Husbands, likewise, live together according to knowledge as with a weaker vessel, with the wife, showing her honor as also a fellow heir of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Pedro 3:7

Provedor e responsável

Quem não cuida dos seus é pior que o descrente. O homem deve trabalhar com diligência e prover para sua família com honra.

8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timóteo 5:8

10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat!

2 Tessalonicenses 3:10

23 And whatever you may do, work it from your soul, as to the Lord and not to men,

Colossenses 3:23

2 It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching; 3 not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money; 4 one ruling his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence;