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 thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise) That it may be well with thee,3 and thou mayst live long upon the earth.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honour2 thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise) That it may be well with thee,3 and thou mayst live long upon the earth.4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the instruction and discipline 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 For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answering said, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God thro' your tradition?4 For God commanded, Honour thy father and mother: and He that revileth father or mother, let him die the death.
3 For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answering said, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God thro' your tradition?4 For God commanded, Honour thy father and mother: and He that revileth father or mother, let him die the death.5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by me:6 Let him not honour his father or his mother. Thus have ye made void the command of God thro' 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 grievous times will come.2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, arrogant, proud, evil-speakers,3 disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, Without natural affection, covenant-breakers, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, despisers 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 and to requite their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.
8 But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.