Raiva
A raiva é uma emoção humana que a Bíblia trata com seriedade. Irar-se não é pecado em si, mas a ira descontrolada destrói relacionamentos e abre porta para o mal.
Controlar a ira
A Bíblia nos exorta a ser tardios para irar-se. A resposta branda desvia o furor, e o que se controla é mais forte que um guerreiro.
For what reason, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding: but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalts folly.
A fool utters all his mind: but a wise [man] keeps it in till afterwards.
A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covers shame.
Irar-se sem pecar
Paulo ensina: irai-vos, mas não pequeis. Não deixe o sol se pôr sobre a vossa ira, para não dar lugar ao diabo.
Be you2f angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Neither give place to the devil.
[It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised [is] wisdom.
Amor e perdão acima da raiva
O amor cobre multidão de pecados. A Bíblia nos chama a não alimentar rancor, mas a perdoar e amar, vencendo a raiva com compaixão.
Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.
Charity suffers long, [and] is kind; charity envies not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Does not behave itself inappropriate, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
youi shall not hate youi brother in youi heart: youi shall in any wise rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain) youi neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
youi shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of youi people, but youi shall love youi neighbour as yourself: I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness (being lustful, loose or lewd; promoting lustful desires in others), an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God-The Father.
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but youi have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
Lift up youri eyes unto the high places, and see where have youi have not had sex? In the ways have youi sat for them, as the Aravi [Arabian] in the wilderness; and youi have polluted the land with youri cult prostitution and with youri wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and youi have polluted the land with youri whoredoms and with your wickedness and refused to be ashamed.
Will youi not from this time cry unto me, My father, youi [are] the guide of my youth?
Will he reserve [his anger] forever? will he keep [it] to the end? Behold, youi have spoken and done evil things as youi could.
The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said also unto me in the days of Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] the king, Have youi seen [that] which backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn youi unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] saw [it].
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] feared not, but went and played the prostitute also.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] has not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, The backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has justified herself more than treacherous Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, youi backsliding Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] I will not keep [anger] forever.
Only acknowledge youri iniquity, that youi have transgressed against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and have scattered youri ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you2f have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Tziyon [parched place]:
And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
And it shall come to pass, when you2f be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), they shall say no more, The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.
At that time they shall call Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] the throne of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
In those days the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall walk with the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
But I said, How shall I put youi among the children, and give youi a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, youi shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.
Surely [as] a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you2f dealt treacherously with me, O house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
Return, you2f backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto youi; for youi [are] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] the salvation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
For shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
