Sexo
A Bíblia trata a sexualidade como um presente de Deus para o contexto do casamento. As Escrituras celebram a intimidade conjugal e orientam sobre pureza e santidade sexual.
A sexualidade no plano de Deus
Desde a criação, Deus projetou a intimidade sexual como expressão de amor entre marido e mulher, abençoando a união conjugal.
So God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female. God blessed them and told them, "Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth."
This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.
Jesus replied, "Haven’t you read that God who created people in the beginning made them male and female? He said, ‘This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother, and join with his wife, and the two shall become one.’ Now they’re no longer two, but one. What God has joined together no one should separate."
May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young. May she be to you a loving deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts always be intoxicating to you; may you be drunk on her love forever.
A santidade na intimidade
O leito conjugal é honroso. A Bíblia celebra a alegria da intimidade dentro do casamento e orienta o casal ao amor e respeito mútuo.
Everyone should honor marriage. Husbands and wives should be faithful to each other. God will judge adulterers.
The husband should meet his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife her husband’s. The wife’s body doesn’t just belong to her, but her husband; and similarly the husband’s body doesn’t just belong to him but his wife.
But if they lack self-control, then they should get married—for it is better to marry than burn with desire.
Did he not make you one, and give some of his Spirit to you? And what does he want? Children of God. So watch what you do, and don’t be unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young.
Don’t you know your bodies are parts of Christ’s body? Should I take the parts of Christ’s body and join them to a prostitute? Absolutely not! Don’t you realize that anyone who has sex with a prostitute becomes "one body" with her? Remember that Scripture says, "The two will become one body." But whoever is joined to the Lord is one with him in spirit!
Pureza sexual
Deus nos chama à santificação e à fuga da imoralidade. O corpo do cristão é templo do Espírito Santo e deve ser tratado com honra.
Stay away from sexual immorality! All other sins that people commit are outside of the body, but sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God? You don’t belong to yourself—a price was paid for you! So glorify God in your body!
What God wants is for you to live holy lives. So stay away from sexual immorality in order that each of you may control yourselves in a way that is holy and respectful, not indulging passionate lust like the heathen who have no knowledge of God.
Sexual immorality or any kind of indecency or greed should never be mentioned concerning you, as God’s people should not be doing such things.
But I tell you that everyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his mind.
Let’s behave properly, showing that we’re people who are living in the light. We shouldn’t spend our time going to wild parties and getting drunk, or having affairs and acting immorally, or getting into fights and being jealous.
You must not commit adultery.
Don’t have sex with a close relative. Don’t shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; don’t have sex with her. Don’t have sex with any of your father’s wives and shame your father. Don’t have sex with your sister, whether she’s your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, or whether she was born in the same house as you or somewhere else. Don’t have sex with your granddaughter, your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, because that would be a shameful thing for you. Don’t have sex with the daughter of any of your father’s wives or the daughter of your father. She is your sister. Don’t have sex with your father’s sister. She is a close relative of your father. Don’t have sex with your mother’s sister. She is a close relative of your mother. Don’t bring shame on your uncle by having sex with his wife. She is your aunt. Don’t have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. Don’t have sex with her. Don’t have sex with your brother’s wife and bring shame on your brother. Don’t have sex with both a woman and her daughter. Don’t have sex with her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter. They are her close relatives. That is something I loathe. Don’t marry your wife’s sister and have sex with her while your wife is still alive. They will be hostile wives to one other. Don’t have sex with a woman during the time she is unclean because of her period. Don’t commit any sex act with any other man’s wife. This would pollute you and make you unclean.
Don’t give any of your children as a human sacrifice to Molech, for you must not disgrace the character of your God. I am the Lord.
Don’t have sex with a man as with a woman. That is something disgusting. Don’t have sex with any animal. This would pollute you and make you unclean.
Even though they claimed to be wise, they became foolish. They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for idols, images of mortal human beings, birds, animals, and reptiles. So God abandoned them to the evil desires of their depraved minds, and they did shameful, degrading things to each other. They exchanged God’s truth for a lie, worshiping and serving creatures instead of the Creator, who deserves praise forever. Amen.
That’s why God abandoned them to their evil desires. Their women exchanged natural sex for that which is unnatural, and in the same way the men gave up sex with women and burned with lust for each other. Men did indecent things to each other, and as a result they suffered the inevitable consequences of their perversions.