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 adversity.
As iron sharpens iron,
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
The Value of a Friend
Two are better than one,
Because they have a good reward for their labor.
For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
But woe to him whois alone when he falls,
For hehas no one to help him up.
Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.
And a threefold cord is not quickly 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 also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Marriage—Christ and the Church
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
The Christian Home
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
And the Lord God said, "Itis not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.
The Virtuous Wife
Who can find a virtuous wife?
For her worth is far above rubies.
You are all fair, my love,
And thereis no spot 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 men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
‘Honor your father andyourmother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’"
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you,
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
Fruitful Growth in the Faith
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
Loving favor rather than silver and gold.