Sobre ter filhos
Filhos são uma dádiva do Senhor, uma herança que Deus confia aos pais. A Bíblia celebra a maternidade e a paternidade como vocações sagradas e fontes de bênção.
Filhos: herança do Senhor
A Escritura declara que os filhos são bênção de Deus. Cada criança é um presente precioso confiado aos pais para ser cuidado com amor.
Children certainly are a gift from the Lord, for a family is a blessing.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of a young man.
Happy is the father who fills his quiver with them! Such fathers will not be embarrassed when they confront their enemies at the city gate.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your table.
He makes the childless woman happy in her home by giving her children. Praise the Lord!
God blessed them and told them, "Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth."
Instruir nos caminhos de Deus
A Bíblia orienta os pais a instruir seus filhos nos caminhos do Senhor desde cedo, com dedicação, disciplina e exemplo.
Teach children the right way to live, and when they grow up they’ll go on doing so.
Focus your minds on the words that I’m saying. Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well. Teach them to your children and talk about them when you’re at home and when you’re traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.
You fathers, don’t make your children mad, so they won’t feel like giving up.
Discipline your children and they won’t give you any worries; they will make you very happy.
Cada vida é preciosa
Deus conhece e forma cada criança no ventre. Antes de nascer, Ele já nos separou e preparou um propósito para cada vida.
"I knew exactly who you would be before I created you in your mother’s womb; I chose you before you were born to be a prophet to the nations."
You made me from the inside out, shaping me in my mother’s womb.
I praise you for making me in such an awesome and wonderful way. What you do is incredible—I realize this completely!
My growing body was not hidden from you as I was formed in secret, as I was intricately put together "in the depths of the earth."
and is sung by the voices of children and infants. Your strength counters your opponents, silencing the enemy and the avenger.
But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them. The kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are like them!"