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 your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
The children: obey your parents in the LORD, for this is right; honor your father and mother, which is the first command with a promise, "That it may be well with you, and you may live a long time on the land."
the children: obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the LORD;
Listen to your father, who begot you, || And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
Whoever is spoiling a father causes a mother to flee, || A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.
Whoever is vilifying his father and his mother, his lamp is extinguished in blackness of darkness.
and if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own house, and to give back a repayment to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before 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.
Give instruction to a youth about his way, || Even when he is old he does not turn from it.
And these words which I am commanding you today have been on your heart, and you have repeated them to your sons, and spoken of them in your sitting in your house, and in your walking in the way, and in your lying down, and in your rising up,
Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother, For they [are] a graceful wreath to your head, || And chains to your neck.
And the fathers: do not provoke your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the LORD.
the fathers: do not distress your children, lest they be discouraged;
A rod and reproof give wisdom, || And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Whoever is sparing his rod is hating his son, || And whoever is loving him has hurried his discipline.
if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
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.
Behold, sons [are] an inheritance of YHWH, || The fruit of the womb [is] a reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, || So [are] the sons of the young men. O the blessedness of the man || Who has filled his quiver with them, || They are not ashamed, || For they speak with enemies in the gate!
Sons’ sons [are] the crown of old men, || And the glory of sons [are] their fathers.
The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, || The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causes a father to rejoice, || And a foolish son [is] an affliction to his mother.
And of which of you—the father—[if] the son will ask [for] a loaf, will present to him a stone? And [if] a fish, instead of a fish, will present to him a serpent? And [if] he may ask [for] an egg, will present to him a scorpion? If, then, you, being evil, have known to be giving good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!"
and if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of the household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
and if [it is] wrong in your eyes to serve YHWH—choose for yourselves today whom you serve—whether the gods whom your fathers served, which [are] beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land you are dwelling; but me and my house—we serve YHWH."
therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.
Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers—they are each put to death for his own sin.