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 Christ loved the church and gave himself for it,26 so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word,
28 In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
33 But each individual man among you must love his wife as he loves himself; and may the wife fear her husband.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.23 For the husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.
18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
2 But because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.
Convivência saudável
Os relacionamentos florescem quando tratamos os outros como gostaríamos de ser tratados, com amor crescente e caráter maduro.
12 Therefore, whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."
19 honor your father and mother,’and ‘you must love your neighbor as yourself.’"
12 May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.
8 If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
14 Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?
10 Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be Christ's servant.
5 For this very reason, you must make every effort to supplement your faith with moral character, your moral character with knowledge,6 your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness,7 your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.