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, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it;26 That he might sanctify it (having cleansed it by the washing of water) through the word:
28 Men ought so to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
33 But let every one of you in particular so love his wife as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as unto the Lord.23 For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is head of the church:
18 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands (as is fit) in the Lord.19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
2 Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; 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 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
19 Honour thy father and mother, and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another and towards all men, as we also do towards you,
8 But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.
14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?
10 For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
5 For this very reason giving all diligence, add to your faith courage,6 and to courage knowledge, And to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience,7 and to patience godliness, And to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.