Pais e filhos
A relação entre pais e filhos é uma das mais preciosas na Bíblia. Deus estabeleceu a família como escola de fé, amor e formação de caráter.
Honrar pai e mãe
Honrar os pais é o primeiro mandamento com promessa. Os filhos são chamados a obedecer, respeitar e cuidar de seus pais.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth."
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Listen to your father who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother
is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
Whoever curses his father or mother,
his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
Instruir os filhos
Os pais devem instruir os filhos no caminho certo. A educação começa cedo, com disciplina amorosa e ensino constante da Palavra.
Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
For they are a garland of grace on your head
and a pendant around your neck.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom,
but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
He who spares the rod hates his son,
but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
Filhos como bênção
Os filhos são herança do Senhor. A coroa dos velhos são os filhos dos filhos, e a glória dos filhos são seus pais.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD,
and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
so are children born in one’s youth.
Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.
He will not be put to shame
when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
and the glory of a son is his father.
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice,
and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son grief to his mother.
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!"
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.