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 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,
28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he does love;
33 but you also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.
22 The wives! to your own husbands subject yield yourselves, as to the Lord,23 because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,
18 The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;19 the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
Convivência saudável
Os relacionamentos florescem quando tratamos os outros como gostaríamos de ser tratados, com amor crescente e caráter maduro.
12 'All things, therefore, whatever you may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
19 honour your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
8 and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- does not provide, the faith he has denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?
10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
5 And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;