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.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou be long living on the land, which thy Lord God shall give to thee.
Sons, obey ye to your father and mother, in the Lord; for this thing is rightful [or is just].
Honour thou thy father and mother, that is the first commandment in [the] promise;
that it be well to thee, and that thou be long living on the earth.
Sons, obey ye to your father and mother by [or in] all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
Hear thy father, that begat thee; and despise not thy mother, when she is eld.
He that tormenteth his father, and fleeth from his mother, shall be full of evil fame, and shall be cursed.
The light of him that curseth his father and mother, shall be quenched in the midst of darknesses.
But if any widow hath children of sons, learn she first to govern her house, and requite to father and mother; for this thing is accepted 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.
It is a proverb, A young waxing man after his way, and when he hath waxed eld [or eldeth], he shall not go away from it.
And these words which I command to thee today, shall be in thine heart;
and thou shalt tell those [or them] to thy sons, and thou shalt think upon them, sitting in thine house, and going in the way, lying down, and rising.
My son, hear thou the teaching of thy father, and forsake thou not the law of thy mother;
that grace be added, either increased, to thine head, and a bie to thy neck.
And, fathers, do not ye provoke your sons to wrath; but nourish ye them in the teaching and chastising [or in the discipline and correction] of the Lord.
Fathers, do not ye provoke your sons to indignation, that they be not made feeble-hearted.
A rod and chastising [or discipline] shall give wisdom; but a child, that is left to his own will, shameth his mother.
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but he that loveth him, teacheth busily.
Abide ye still in chastising [or discipline]; God proffereth [or offereth] him to you as to sons. For what son is it, whom the father chastiseth not?
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.
lo! the heritage of the Lord is sons, the meed is the fruit of [the] womb.
As arrows be in the hand of the mighty; so the sons of them that be shaken out.
Blessed is the man, that hath [full-]filled his desire of those [or them]; he shall not be shamed, when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.
The crown of eld [or old] men is the sons of sons; and the glory of sons is the fathers of them.
The father of a just [or rightwise] man joyeth full out with joy; he that begat a wise man, shall be glad in him.
The parables of Solomon. A wise son maketh glad his father; but a fond [or foolish] son is the sorrow of his mother.
Therefore who of you asketh his father bread, whether he shall give [to] him a stone? or if he asketh fish, whether he shall give [to] him a serpent for the fish?
or if he asketh an egg, whether he shall areach [to] him a scorpion?
Therefore if ye, when ye be evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father of heaven shall give a good Spirit to men that ask him.
For if any man hath not care of his own, and mostly of his household men or meine, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unfaithful, [or heathen], man.
But if it seemeth evil to you, that ye serve the Lord, choosing is given to you; choose ye to you today that, that pleaseth, whom ye owe most to serve; whether to gods, which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, whether to the gods of Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; forsooth I, and mine house, shall serve the Lord.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
The fathers shall not be slain for the sons, neither the sons for the fathers, but each man shall die for his own sin.