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 honour your father and mother,3 which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with you, and you may live a long time upon the land.'
1 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;2 honour your father and mother,3 which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with you, and you may live a long time upon the land.'4 And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition gentle correction, counsel of the Lord.
20 the children! obey the 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 And he answering said to them, 'Why also do you transgress the command of God because of your tradition?4 For God did command, saying, Honour your father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;
3 And he answering said to them, 'Why also do you transgress the command of God because of your tradition?4 For God did command, saying, Honour your father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;5 but you say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offeringis whatever you may be profited by me; --6 and he may not honour his father or his mother, and you did set aside the command of God because 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 And this know you, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,2 for men people shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers profane, those speaking insults, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind unsacred (Gk. anosios),3 without natural affection affectionless, implacable unappeasable, irreconcilable, relentless, false accusers slanderers, incontinent without restraint, undisciplined, lacking self-control, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,
Cuidar dos pais
Quem não cuida dos seus, principalmente de sua família, negou a fé. Honrar os pais inclui respeitar os idosos.
4 and if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
8 and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- does not provide, the faith he has denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.