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 that you may live long on the earth.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is just.2 Honor your father and mother, (which is the first commandment with a promise,)3 that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.4 Also, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; but bring them up in the correction and instruction of the Lord.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to 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 Jesus answering, said to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God?4 «For God has commanded, saying,'Honor father and mother'; and'Whosoever reviles father or mother, let him be punished with death.'»
3 Jesus answering, said to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God?4 «For God has commanded, saying,'Honor father and mother'; and'Whosoever reviles father or mother, let him be punished with death.'»5 But you affirm, If a man say to father or mother, I devote whatever of mine shall profit you,6 he shall not afterward honor by his assistance, his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you annul the commandment of God.
Consequências da desonra
A Bíblia adverte severamente contra a desonra aos pais. Quem amaldiçoa ou agride os pais enfrenta consequências sérias.
1 This, also, know, that in latter days perilous times will come.2 For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, defamers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,3 without natural affection, bargain-breakers, slanderers, incontinent, fierce, haters of good men,
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 any widow have children, or grandchildren, let these learn first piously to take care of their own family, and then to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
8 For if any one provide not for his own, and especially those of his own family, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.