2199. The fourth commandment is addressed expressly to children in their relationship to their father and mother, because this relationship is the most universal. It likewise concerns the ties of kinship between members of the extended family. It requires honor, affection, and gratitude toward elders and ancestors. Finally, it extends to the duties of pupils to teachers, employees to employers, subordinates to leaders, citizens to their country, and to those who administer or govern it. This commandment includes and presupposes the duties of parents, instructors, teachers, leaders, magistrates, those who govern, all who exercise authority over others or over a community of persons.
Aprofunde seus conhecimentos
80. How is the Good News spread?
397. How does sin proliferate?
201. Why does the Church have the power to forgive sins?
137. Why are the missions of the Son and the Holy Spirit inseparable?
310. What are the effects of this sacrament?
448. Why is a false oath forbidden?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
How does the story of Rich and Lazarus warn us about the consequences of greed? (Luke 16:19-31)
What is the seventy week prophecy in Daniel 9?
Justification by Faith: What Does the Bible Say? (Romans 1:17)
What does it mean to love God and neighbor and what is the importance of this teaching in the Bible?
What does the Bible teach about God’s final judgment, and what does Malachi 3:18 tell us about it?