Honrar os pais
Honrar pai e mãe é mandamento de Deus com promessa de vida longa e feliz. A Bíblia ensina que respeitar, obedecer e cuidar dos pais é dever sagrado dos filhos.
O mandamento com promessa
Honra a teu pai e a tua mãe para que vá bem contigo e vivas muito tempo sobre a terra. É o primeiro mandamento com promessa.
2 "Honor your father and mother,"which is the first commandment with a promise:3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.2 "Honor your father and mother,"which is the first commandment with a promise:3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."4 And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
Obedecer e respeitar
Filhos, obedecei a vossos pais no Senhor. Ouvir a instrução do pai e não desprezar o ensino da mãe traz sabedoria.
3 He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?4 For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.'
3 He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?4 For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.'5 But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "[It is] a gift [to God], whatever profit you might have received from me"-6 then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition.
Consequências da desonra
A Bíblia adverte severamente contra a desonra aos pais. Quem amaldiçoa ou agride os pais enfrenta consequências sérias.
1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come.2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, not loving what is good,
Cuidar dos pais
Quem não cuida dos seus, principalmente de sua família, negou a fé. Honrar os pais inclui respeitar os idosos.
4 But if a certain widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own household and to make repayment to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.
8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his [own] house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.