18 Versículos Bíblicos sobre Honrar os Pais, e a Lacuna que Jesus Fechou



  • Jesus made his sharpest statement on the commandment while attacking a rule that let devout men withhold money from their own parents.
  • Honour in these passages is upkeep rather than manners: Paul calls it repaying, and puts it before anything done at church.
  • Exodus 20:12 is addressed to adults — children rarely need commanding, and grown sons and daughters with ageing parents do.
  • Genesis 9:23 is the Bible’s most practical picture of the duty: two sons walking backwards to cover a father who has humiliated himself.
  • The death-penalty verses are criminal law from a covenant nation with its own courts, not a sentence anyone is authorised to carry out.

The sharpest thing Jesus ever said about honouring parents was said to religious people who had found a way around it. They had a rule: declare your money devoted to God, and you were released from supporting your father and mother. Jesus calls that setting aside the command of God for the sake of a tradition. It is the key to the whole subject, because the commandment turns out to be about upkeep rather than manners. Eighteen passages follow —…

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