57 Bible Verses about Old Age, Attitudes To

Show respect to the elderly, and honor older people. In this way you show respect for your God. I am Jehovah.

Likewise, you younger men, be subject to the older men. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. God resists the proud, but gives loving kindness to the humble.

the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood.

Gray hair is a crown of glory when it is found in the way of righteousness.

The glory of young men is their strength. The honor of old men is their gray haired [wisdom and experience].

Do not rebuke (censure) (criticize) an elder, but appeal to him as a father, the younger men as brothers.

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

Listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

Jehovah gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death. You are responsible for your own death.

Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or mother. All the people will say: Amen.

The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'

Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.'

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise. Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered: I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you. I said: 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'

Then King Rehoboam consulted elders who had been with Solomon his father when he was living. He said: In your opinion, what answer am I to give to these people? They said to him: If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a favorable answer, then they will be your servants for ever. But he paid no attention to the opinion of the elders. He went to the young men who were his advisors:

King Rehoboam sought advice from the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive. He asked: What do you advise? How should I respond to these people? They told him: If you are good to these people and try to please them by speaking gently to them, then they will always be your servants. He ignored the advice the elders gave him. He sought advice from the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your strength to this generation, your power to all who are to come.

Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned.

I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food. He is always generous and lends freely. His descendants are a blessing.

It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.

Joseph trained the king's officers the way he wanted and taught his respected leaders wisdom.

People will oppress each other. Everyone will harass his neighbor. The young will tyrannize the old. The common people will taunt their superiors.

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

Men younger than I am make fun of me now! Their fathers have always been so worthless that I would not let them help dogs guard sheep.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my heritage and gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.

They put princes to death by hanging. The elders are not honored.

So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph.

The elders of Moab and Midian left. They took money with them to pay for Balaam's services. They came to Balaam and told him what Balak had said.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them: JEHOVAH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me. He said: I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt. So I said: 'I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.' They will listen to what you say. You with the elders of Israel will approach the king of Egypt. You will say to him: 'Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.'

Then Moses and Aaron went to Egypt and assembled all the elders of the people of Israel. Aaron told them everything Jehovah had said to Moses. He also did the miraculous signs for the people. The people believed them. When they heard that Jehovah was concerned about the people of Israel and that he had seen their misery, they knelt, bowed low and worshiped.

Moses went down the mountain and called for the elders of the people. He repeated to them all the words that Jehovah had commanded him.

Jehovah came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy elders. When the Spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not for long.

But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and murders him. If he flees to one of these cities, the elders of his city will send for him. They will take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die.

The girl's father and her mother must present evidence of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. The girl's father shall say to the elders: I gave my daughter to be this man's wife, but he turned against her. He has charged her with shameful deeds. He says: 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin. But this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.read more.
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

If the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say: My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

All the elders of Israel came to King David at Hebron. He made a sacred alliance with them. They anointed him, and he became king of Israel.

Those who captured Jesus took him to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest. The scribes and those in authority also gathered there.

They led Jesus away to the high priest. The chief priests, elders and scribes came together with him.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Faithful is the saying: If a man seeks the office of overseer, he desires a good work. The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach; not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;read more.
one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness; if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the congregation of God? He should not be a new believer, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil. He must have a good reputation with those outside the congregation, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

I left you in Crete for this purpose, that you should correct the things that were defective, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave you orders. A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience. The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain.read more.
but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled; holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to reprove (refute) (rebuke) those who contradict.

Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God.

I exhort the elders among you. I too am an older man and a witness of the sufferings of Christ. I am also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed. Shepherd the flock of God in your care. Exercise the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God. Do not do it for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

I watched as thrones were placed. The ANCIENT OF DAYS sat on one throne. His clothing was white as snow. His hair was like pure wool. His throne was like fiery flames, and the wheels on it were like burning fire.

I saw in the night-visions someone like a SON OF MAN came with the clouds of heaven. He came to the Ancient of Days. They brought him near before him.

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were like a flame of fire.

Yet, Jehovah lives forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

Jehovah sat enthroned over the flood. Jehovah sits enthroned as king forever.

Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and its inhabitants, you are God from everlasting to everlasting.

Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah have done this with the first of them and with the last. I am he!

This is what Jehovah, Israel's King and Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts says: 'I AM THE FIRST AND I AM THE LAST-APART FROM ME THERE IS NO GOD!