Filhos: herança de Deus, criação e valores na Bíblia

3 Children certainly are a gift from the Lord, for a family is a blessing.*

4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of a young man.

5 Happy is the father who fills his quiver* with them! Such fathers will not be embarrassed when they confront their enemies at the city gate.*(Psalms 127:3-5)

1 Happy are all those who worship the Lord, everyone who follows his ways!

2 You will eat what your own hands have produced. You will be happy and do well.

3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your table.

4 This will certainly be the Lord’s blessing on those who worship him.(Psalms 128:1-4)

2 Their descendants will prosper in the land; the children of those who do good will be blessed.(Psalms 112:2)

12 Then our sons will grow up like plants in their youth and become mature, and our daughters will be like beautiful pillars carved to support a palace.(Psalms 144:12)

28 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."(Genesis 1:28)

14 You will be blessed more than any other nation; none of you will be childless, and none of your livestock will fail to have young.(Deuteronomy 7:14)

4 You will be blessed with many children. You will be blessed with good harvests. You will be blessed with livestock—your cattle will have many calves, and your sheep will have many lambs.(Deuteronomy 28:4)

6 The commands I’m giving you today must stay in your minds. 7 You are to explain them carefully to your children and talk about them when you’re at home and when you’re traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.(Deuteronomy 6:6,7)

6 Teach children the right way to live, and when they grow up they’ll go on doing so.(Proverbs 22:6)

1 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and discover what makes sense,(Proverbs 4:1)

4 We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about God’s marvelous actions—about his power and the amazing things he has done.(Psalms 78:4)

24 People who don’t discipline their children hate them. Those who love their children carefully discipline them.(Proverbs 13:24)

15 Children are naturally foolish; physical correction helps them to see sense.(Proverbs 22:15)

13 Don’t keep from disciplining your children—a beating won’t kill them.(Proverbs 23:13)

15 Discipline and correction provide wisdom, but a son left undisciplined is an embarrassment to his mother.(Proverbs 29:15)

4 Fathers, don’t make your children mad, but look after them by disciplining them and instructing them about God.(Ephesians 6:4)

21 You fathers, don’t make your children mad, so they won’t feel like giving up.(Colossians 3:21)

7 Be patient as you experience God’s discipline because he is treating you as his children. What child doesn’t experience a father’s discipline? 8 If you are not disciplined (which everyone has experienced), then you are illegitimate and not true children.(Hebrews 12:7,8)

14 But when Jesus saw what they were doing, he became very upset and told them, "Let the children come to me! Don’t stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.(Mark 10:14)

11 So if even you who are evil know to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.(Matthew 7:11)

52 Jesus grew steadily wiser and stronger, favored both by God and by the people.(Luke 2:52)

13 Like a loving father, the Lord is kind and compassionate to those who follow him.(Psalms 103:13)

1 Look at the amazing kind of love the Father has for us! This is why we can be called God’s children—for that’s who we are! The reason why the people of this world don’t recognize us as God’s children is because they don’t recognize him.(1 John 3:1)

21 A woman in labor suffers pain because her time has come, but once the baby is born, she forgets the agony because of the joy that a child has been brought into the world.(John 16:21)

13 You made me from the inside out,* shaping me in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you for making me in such an awesome and wonderful way. What you do is incredible—I realize this completely!

15 My growing body* was not hidden from you as I was formed in secret, as I was intricately put together "in the depths of the earth."*

16 You saw me as an embryo, and in your book all my days were written down—the days that were made for me before any of them existed.(Psalms 139:13-16)

5 "I knew exactly who you would be before I created you in your mother’s womb; I chose you before you were born to be a prophet to the nations."(Jeremiah 1:5)

24 ‘May the Lord bless you and take care of you. 25 May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. 26 May the Lord watch over you and give you peace.’(Numbers 6:24-26)

3 For I’m going to pour out water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground. I’m going to pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children. 4 They will grow up among the grass, like willows beside streams.(Isaiah 44:3,4)

13 and all your children will be students of the Lord, and they will live in complete peace.(Isaiah 54:13)

38 They will be my people, and I will be their God. 39 I will make sure they think the same way and act in harmony, so that they will always honor me so all will be good for them and their descendants.(Jeremiah 32:38,39)

10 I was entrusted to you from birth; from the time I was born you have been my God.(Psalms 22:10)

25 Once I was young, and now I’ve grown old, yet I’ve never seen those who do right abandoned, nor their children having to beg for bread.

26 They are always kind, and generous with their loans; their children are a blessing.(Psalms 37:25,26)

28 "May God use the dew of heaven and fertile land to give you rich harvests of grain and new wine! 29 May the people of different nations serve you and bow down to you. May you rule over your relatives, and may they bow down to you. May everyone who curses you be cursed, and may everyone who blesses you be blessed."(Genesis 27:28,29)

39 Your small children that you claimed would become prisoners, your children who at the time didn’t know good from evil, they will be the ones to enter the land that I will give them, and they will occupy it.(Deuteronomy 1:39)

12 Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.(Exodus 20:12)

1 Children, as believers in the Lord, do what your parents tell you, for this is the right thing to do. 2 "Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment that has a promise attached: 3 "that things may go well for you and you may live a long life on the earth."*(Ephesians 6:1-3)

20 You children, always do what your parents tell you because this is what pleases the Lord.(Colossians 3:20)

1 Solomon’s proverbs.

A wise son makes his father happy, but a stupid son only brings his mother grief.(Proverbs 10:1)

6 Old people are proud of their grandchildren, and children are proud of their parents.(Proverbs 17:6)

7 Good people live honestly; how happy are their children if they follow them.(Proverbs 20:7)

4 For the Christian responsibility of a widow’s children or grandchildren is to do their duty for their own family, and repay their parents by helping them out. This is what pleases God.(1 Timothy 5:4)