14 Bible Verses about Old Age, Attitudes To

Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Rebuke not an aged man, but entreat him as a father, the younger men as brothers,

For God said, Honor your father and mother; and he that reviles father or mother, let him surely die.

for Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and, He that reviles father or mother, let him surely die.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with you, and you shall live long in the land.

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

And having taken Jesus, they led him away to Caiaphas, the chief priest, where the scribes and elders were assembled.

AND they led away Jesus to the chief priest; and all the chief priests, and elders, and scribes came together to him.

Let the elders who rule well be accounted worthy of a double compensation, especially those who labor in word and teaching.

IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work. It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach, not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,read more.
ruling well his own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,??5 but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God???6 not a novice, lest being inflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. And he must also have a good name from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you, if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination. For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,read more.
but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying, holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.

if any one is sick among you, let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed; feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

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