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.
Friends love others all the time,
and relatives are able to help us when we have troubles.
We can use one iron tool to sharpen another iron tool;
similarly [SIM], when one person shares what he is thinking, it can help other people to think more clearly.
Having someone work with you is better than being by yourself all the time.
If you have a friend, he can help you to do your work.
If you fall down, he can help you get up again.
But if you fall down when you are alone, it will be difficult for you,
because there will be no one to help you stand up.
Someone who is alone can easily be attacked and defeated by another person,
but two people can help each other and ◄resist/defend themselves against► someone who attacks them.
Three people can defend themselves even more easily,
like a rope that is made from three cords is harder to break than a rope made from two cords.
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.
Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all of us who would become believers, with the result that he willingly died for our sake, in order that he might ◄set us apart for himself/cause us to belong to him►. That is, by revealing his message to us, he wanted to remove the guilt of our sin, just like people remove dirt from something by washing it [MET].
In the same way, each man should love his wife as he loves his own body. Men who love their wives, it is as though they love themselves.
However, as for you(pl), each man must love his wife just as he loves himself, and each woman must respect her husband.
Instructions about how wives and husbands, children and parents, and slaves and masters should behave toward each other.
Because husbands have authority over [MET] their wives, just as all of us believers form one group under the authority of Christ, you women should submit yourselves to the authority of your husbands just as you submit yourselves to the Lord Jesus. He is the one who saves all his people from the guilt of their sins.
Wives, be subject to your husbands; husbands, love your wives.
You women, be subject to your husbands, since that is what you should do because you have a close relationship with the Lord Jesus. You men, love your wives; and, do not be harsh with them.
Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him."
But because many people are committing sexual immorality, which God detests, every man should have his own wife with whom he can have sexual relations, and every woman should have her own husband with whom she can have sexual relations.
We can inherit a house or money from our parents when they die,
but only Yahweh can give someone a sensible wife.
Praise for a good wife
It is very difficult for a man to [RHQ] find a wife who is good and who is capable of doing many things.
Any woman who is like that is worth more than jewels.
My darling, you are completely beautiful;
your body is perfectly formed!
Convivência saudável
Os relacionamentos florescem quando tratamos os outros como gostaríamos de ser tratados, com amor crescente e caráter maduro.
Jesus taught that we should treat others as we would like them to treat us.
"So in whatever way you want others to act toward you (pl), that is the way you (pl) should act toward them, because that sums up what Moses wrote in the laws that God gave him and also what the prophets wrote long ago."
honor your father and your mother, and love people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself."
As for you, we pray that the Lord Jesus will help you to love each other and other people more and more, just like we continue loving you more and more.
If anyone does not take care of those who live in his own house, and especially if he does not take care of his own family, he has ◄denied/quit believing► what we believe and we should consider that he is worse than a person who does not believe in Christ.
Do not get involved with people who do not honor God.
Do not ◄team up/have a close relationship► with anyone who does not trust in Christ. I say this because we who trust in Christ and do what is right should not [RHQ] want to do things with wicked people. Or to say it in another way, just like light and darkness never join together, so those who belong to Christ and those who belong to Satan should never join together [RHQ].
I said that because [RHQ] I do not desire that people approve me, contrary to what some have said about me. It is God whom I desire to approve me. Specifically, I do not say and do [RHQ] things just to please people. If it were still people whom I was trying to please, then I would not be one who willingly and completely serves Christ.
Try your hardest to develop a stable Christian character.
Because God has done all that, by trying very hard, make sure that you not only believe in Christ, but that you are also living morally good lives. And make sure that you are not only living morally good lives, but that you also know what God desires (OR, behave wisely). And make sure that you not only know what God desires (OR, behave wisely), but that you also control what you say and do. And make sure that you not only control what you say and do, but that you are also steadfast/patient. And make sure that you are not only ◄steadfast/patient when you suffer►, but that you are also godly. And make sure that you not only ◄are godly/live in a way that pleases God►, but that you also have a concern for your fellow believers, as brothers and sisters ought to have for each other. And make sure that you not only have a concern for your fellow believers, but that you also love others.
◄Having a good reputation/Being honored by people► is better than having a lot of money;
being well respected is better than having plenty of gold or silver [DOU].