50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.

It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

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

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

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

I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month , in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

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

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.

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

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.

And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

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

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel.

But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;

The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God that sitteth on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.

Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and green:

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you ; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and'seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?