Filhos
Os filhos são herança do Senhor — bênção e responsabilidade sagrada. A Bíblia orienta sobre a criação dos filhos com amor, disciplina e instrução nos caminhos de Deus.
Herança do Senhor
Os filhos são herança do Senhor e o fruto do ventre é seu galardão. Bem-aventurado o homem que enche deles a sua aljava.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD,
and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
so are children born in one’s youth.
Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.
He will not be put to shame
when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
A song of ascents.
Blessed are all who fear the LORD,
who walk in His ways!
For when you eat the fruit of your labor,
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
flourishing within your house,
your sons like olive shoots
sitting around your table.
In this way indeed shall blessing come
to the man who fears the LORD.
A song of ascents.
Blessed are all who fear the LORD,
who walk in His ways!
For when you eat the fruit of your labor,
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
flourishing within your house,
your sons like olive shoots
sitting around your table.
Then our sons will be like plants
nurtured in their youth,
our daughters like corner pillars
carved to adorn a palace.
His descendants will be mighty in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."
The fruit of your womb will be blessed,
as well as the produce of your land
and the offspring of your livestock —
the calves of your herds
and the lambs of your flocks.
You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
Instruir e disciplinar
Instrui a criança no caminho em que deve andar, e quando envelhecer não se desviará dele. Disciplina é amor em ação.
Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
He who spares the rod hates his son,
but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom,
but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Do not withhold discipline from a child;
although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction;
pay attention and gain understanding.
The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son grief to his mother.
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
O amor de Deus por crianças
Deixai vir a mim as crianças. Jesus acolheu, abençoou e honrou as crianças como modelo de fé e humildade.
But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
Bênção e promessa
O Senhor te abençoe e te guarde. Os filhos dos justos serão abençoados e suas gerações caminharão na retidão.
‘May the LORD bless you
and keep you;
may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you
and give you peace.’
May God give to you the dew of heaven
and the richness of the earth —
an abundance of grain and new wine.
May peoples serve you
and nations bow down to you.
May you be the master of your brothers,
and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed,
and those who bless you be blessed."
For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and currents on the dry ground.
I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants,
and My blessing on your offspring.
They will sprout among the grass
like willows by flowing streams.
Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD,
and great will be their prosperity.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
They will be My people, and I will be their God. I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
For You formed my inmost being;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise You,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Marvelous are Your works,
and I know this very well.
My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was woven together
in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all my days were written in Your book
and ordained for me
before one of them came to be.
From birth I was cast upon You;
from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
I once was young and now am old,
yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned
or their children begging for bread.
They are ever generous and quick to lend,
and their children are a blessing.
We will not hide them from their children
but will declare to the next generation
the praises of the LORD and His might
and the wonders He has performed.
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
and the glory of a son is his father.
The righteous man walks with integrity;
blessed are his children after him.
Criação e obediência
Pais, criai vossos filhos na disciplina e instrução do Senhor. Filhos, obedecei a vossos pais — isto é justo e agradável a Deus.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth."
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
And the little ones you said would become captives — your children who on that day did not know good from evil — will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.