28 Bible Verses about Aging

A crown of beauty are grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

Even to old age I am He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.

With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding.

Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

Sons' sons are the crown of old men, And the glory of sons are their fathers.

With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

and he dieth in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honour, and reign doth Solomon his son in his stead.

I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

and if thou dost walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David thy father walked, then I have prolonged thy days.'

Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

And, now, lo, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as He hath spoken, these forty and five years, since Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, when Israel went in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am to-day a son of five and eighty years;

And Moses is a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled.

and thou -- thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

I have remembered days of old, I have meditated on all Thine acts, On the work of Thy hand I muse.

Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

'Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.