Relacionamentos
Os relacionamentos são centrais na vida cristã. A Bíblia orienta sobre amizade, casamento, família e convivência, sempre tendo o amor como fundamento de toda relação.
Amor e amizade
O amigo ama em todo tempo. A Bíblia valoriza amizades verdadeiras que edificam, fortalecem e desafiam ao crescimento mútuo.
A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.
Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens another.
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts.
For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.
And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.
Casamento e família
O casamento é aliança sagrada. O marido deve amar a esposa como Cristo amou a Igreja, e ambos devem cultivar respeito e submissão mútua.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
Wives, submit , to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him."
But because sexual immorality is so common, , each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.
A house and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Who can find a wife of noble character? ,
She is far more precious than jewels.
You are absolutely beautiful, my darling;
there is no imperfection in you.
Convivência saudável
Os relacionamentos florescem quando tratamos os outros como gostaríamos de ser tratados, com amor crescente e caráter maduro.
Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
honor your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as yourself.,
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we do for you.
But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
A good name is to be chosen over great wealth;
favor is better than silver and gold.