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. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Children and Parents
Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. "Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father and mother, "things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth."
Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.
Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother
are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.
If you insult your father or mother,
your light will be snuffed out in total darkness.
But if she has children or grandchildren, their first responsibility is to show godliness at home and repay their parents by taking care of them. This is something that pleases 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.
Direct your children onto the right path,
and when they are older, they will not leave it.
And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
A Father’s Exhortation: Acquire Wisdom
My child, listen when your father corrects you.
Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
What you learn from them will crown you with grace
and be a chain of honor around your neck.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
Fathers, do not aggravate your children, or they will become discouraged.
To discipline a child produces wisdom,
but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.
Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children.
Those who love their children care enough to discipline them.
As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its 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 a gift from the Lord;
they are a reward from him.
Children born to a young man
are like arrows in a warrior’s hands.
How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them!
He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.
Grandchildren are the crowning glory of the aged;
parents are the pride of their children.
The father of godly children has cause for joy.
What a pleasure to have children who are wise.
The Proverbs of Solomon
The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise child brings joy to a father;
a foolish child brings grief to a mother.
"You fathers—if your children askfor a fish, do you give them a snake instead?Or if they ask for an egg, do you give them a scorpion? Of course not!So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him."
But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.
But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord."
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
"Parents must not be put to death for the sins of their children, nor children for the sins of their parents. Those deserving to die must be put to death for their own crimes.