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.
17 At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.
17 Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.
9 The two [are] better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.
10 For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!
12 And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily 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.
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 doth love;
33 but ye 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 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;
18 And Jehovah God saith, Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.
2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
14 House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.
10 A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies [is] her price.
7 Thou [art] all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,
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 ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
19 honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
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 -- doth not provide, the faith he hath 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 -- Christs 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;
1 A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace.