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.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word,
In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Nevertheless, each man among you must love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Wives and Husbands
Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head and Savior of the church, which is his body.
Rules for Christian Households
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be embittered against them.
But because of the cases of fornication, each man should have his own wife, and each 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.
"Therefore whatever you wish that others would do to you, do the same also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Honor yoʋr father and yoʋr mother, and, Yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor as yoʋrself."
May the Lord cause you to increase and abound in your love for one another and for all, just as we abound in our love for you.
But if anyone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Do Not Be Unequally Yoked
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? What fellowship does light have with darkness?
Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, your virtue with knowledge, your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness, your godliness with brotherly affection, and your brotherly affection with love.