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 your mother« –this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it–3 »so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.«
1 Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.2 »Honour your father and your mother« –this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it–3 »so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.«4 And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.
20 Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.
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 »Why do you, too,« He retorted, »transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition?4 For God said, Honour thy father and thy mother'; and Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';
3 »Why do you, too,« He retorted, »transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition?4 For God said, Honour thy father and thy mother'; and Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';5 but you –this is what you say: If a man says to his father or mother, That is consecrated, whatever it is, which otherwise you should have received from me–6 he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word 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 of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in.2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,3 destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,
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 widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.
8 But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.