6 Bible Verses about Caring For The Elderly
Most Relevant Verses
I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.
“You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am Yahweh.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, that is his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and with all propriety, the younger women as sisters.
So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite replied:
I am young in years,
while you are old;
therefore I was timid and afraid
to tell you what I know.
I thought that age should speak
and maturity should teach wisdom.
In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because
God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.
