28 Bible Verses about Aging

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and shalt honour the face of an old man; and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Even to old age, I am HE, and unto hoary hairs I will carry you: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I will carry, and will deliver.

With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.

And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and full of days; and was gathered to his peoples.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

With length of days will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will prolong thy days.

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right; that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children, discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience; that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren, elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto this generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

And now behold, Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, when Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy doing; I muse on the work of thy hands.

He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;

Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.