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.
And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female.
And God blessed them, and said, Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the earth, and make ye it subject; and be ye lords to the fishes of the sea, and to [the] volatiles of heaven, and to all living beasts that be moved on [the] earth.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
Which answered, and said to them, have ye not read, for he that made men at the beginning, made them male and female?
And he said, for this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw [or cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
Thy vein be blessed; and be thou glad with the woman of thy young waxing age.
An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.
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.
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
And if they contain not them-selves, [or be not chaste], be they wedded; for it is better to be wedded, than to be burnt.
Whether one made not, and the residue of spirit is his? and what seeketh one, no but the seed of God? Therefore keep ye your spirit, and do not thou despise the wife of thy youth;
Know ye not, that your bodies be members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and shall I make them the members of a whore? God forbid.
Whether ye know not, that he that cleaveth to a whore, is made one body? For he saith, There shall be twain in one flesh.
And he that cleaveth to the Lord, is one 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.
Flee ye fornication; all sin what-ever sin a man doeth, is without the body; but he that doeth fornication, sinneth against his body.
Whether ye know not, that your members be the temple of the Holy Ghost, that is in you, whom ye have of God, and ye be not your own?
For ye be bought with great price. Glorify ye, and bear ye God in your body.
For this is the will of God, your holiness, that ye abstain you from fornication.
That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;
not in passion of lust, as heathen men that know not God.
And fornication, and all unclean-ness, or avarice, be not named among you, as it becometh holy men;
But I say to you, that every man that seeth a woman [for] to covet her, hath now done lechery by her in his heart.
As in [the] day wander we honestly, not in superfluous feasts [or in oft eatings], and drunkennesses, not in beds and unchastities, not in strife and in envy;
Thou shalt not do lechery.
A man shall not nigh to a nigh woman of his blood, that he show her filthhood or nakedness; I am the Lord.
Thou shalt not discover the filth-hood of thy father, and the filthhood of thy mother; she is thy mother, thou shalt not show her filthhood.
Thou shalt not uncover the filth-hood of the wife of thy father, for it is the filthhood of thy father.
Thou shalt not show the filthhood of thy sister, of father, either of mother, which sister is begotten at home, that is, in wedlock, either withoutforth, that is, out of wedlock.
Thou shalt not show the filthhood of the daughter of thy son, either of thy niece, that is, the daughter of thy daughter, for it is thy filthhood.
Thou shalt not show the filthhood of the daughter of the wife of thy father, which she childed to thy father, and she is thy sister.
Thou shalt not open the filthhood of thy father’s sister, for she is the flesh of thy father.
Thou shalt not show the filthhood of the sister of thy mother, for she is the flesh of thy mother.
Thou shalt not show the filthhood of the brother of thy father, neither thou shalt nigh to his wife, that is joined to thee by affinity.
Thou shalt not show the filthhood of thy son’s wife, for she is the wife of thy son, neither thou shalt discover her shame; and no man take his brother’s wife.
Thou shalt not show the filth-hood of thy brother’s wife, for it is the filthhood of thy brother.
Thou shalt not show the filthhood of a woman, and of her daughter; thou shalt not take the daughter of her son, and the daughter of her daughter, that thou show her shame; they be the flesh of her, and such lechery is incest, that is, lechery of them that be kin.
Thou shalt not take the sister of thy wife, to anguish of her, neither thou shalt show her filthhood, while thy wife liveth yet.
Thou shalt not nigh to a woman that suffereth the running of blood of month, neither thou shalt show her filthhood.
Thou shalt not do lechery with thy neighbour’s wife, neither thou shalt be defouled with meddling [or mingling together] of seed.
Thou shalt not give of thy seed, that it be offered to the idol Moloch, neither thou shalt defoul the name of thy God; I am the Lord.
Thou shalt not be meddled [or mingled] with a man, by lechery of a woman, for it is abomination.
Thou shalt not do lechery with any beast, neither thou shalt be defouled with it. A woman shall not lie under a beast, neither shall be meddled [or mingled] therewith, that is, defouled by fleshly knowing thereof, for it is great sin.
For they saying that themselves were wise, they were made fools.
And they exchanged the glory of uncorruptible God into the likeness of an image of a deadly [or a corruptible] man, and of birds, and of four-footed beasts, and of serpents.
For which thing God betook them into the desires of their heart, into uncleanness, that they punish with wrongs their bodies in themselves.
The which [men] changed the truth of God into leasing, and praised and served a creature rather than the Creator, that is blessed into worlds of worlds [or into without end]. Amen.
Therefore God betook them into passions of shame [or of evil fame]. For the women of them changed the natural use into that use that is against kind.
Also the men forsook the kindly use of women, and burned in their desires together, and men into men wrought filthhood, and received into themselves the meed that behooved of their error.