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.
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.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as also the Meshiha loved his church, and gave himself for her,26 that he might sanctify her and purify her in the laver of waters and by the word,
28 So it becometh husbands to love their wives, as their own bodies. For he who his wife loveth, himself he loveth.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you so love his wife as his own self; but let the wife reverence her husband.
22 WIVES, be subject to your husbands as to our Lord.23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as the Meshiha is the head of the church, and he himself is the Saviour of the body.
18 WIVES, be subject to your husbands, as it is right in the Meshiha.19 Men, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
2 but, because of fornication, let a man take his wife, and let a woman take her husband.
Convivência saudável
Os relacionamentos florescem quando tratamos os outros como gostaríamos de ser tratados, com amor crescente e caráter maduro.
12 All therefore that you will that men shall do unto you, so also do you unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.
19 and honour thy father and thy mother, and love thy neighbour as thyself.
12 and he will cause your love to increase to one another, and to every man, even as we love you;
8 For if a man hath not care of them who are his own, and especially of them who are children of the household of faith, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than those who believe not.
14 And be not sons of the yoke with them who believe not. For what participation hath righteousness with iniquity? Or what commixture hath the light with darkness?
10 For now do I persuade men, or Aloha? or do I seek to please men? For if until now I had pleased men, I should not have been the servant of the Meshiha.
5 So, with this, bringing in all diligence, add to your faith virtue; but to virtue knowledge,6 but to knowledge perseverance, but to perseverance patience, but to patience godliness,7 but to godliness brotherly kindness, but to brotherly kindness love.