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, even as Christ, also, loved the congregation, and gave himself for it;26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with a bath of water, with the word.
28 So ought husbands to love their own wives, as their own bodies: he who loves his own wife, loves himself.
33 Therefore, also, let every one of you in particular, so love his own wife as himself; and let the wife reverence her husband.
22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.23 For the husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is head of the congregation; he is the saviour of the body.
18 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
2 Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman 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 Whatever you would that others do to you, do you the same to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
19 «Honor father and mother; and love your neighbor as yourself.»
12 And may the Lord fill you, and make you overflow with love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you;
8 For if any one provide not for his own, and especially those of his own family, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
10 For do I now conciliate men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
5 And for this very reason, indeed, giving all diligence, add to your faith, courage; and to courage, knowledge;6 and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness;7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love: