50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

With old men is wisdom, and length of days, understanding

Not the many will be wise: and old men understand judgment.

Remember the days of eternity; Discern the years of generation and generation: Ask thy father, and he will announce to thee; Thy old men, and they shall say to thee.

From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.

The crown of old men, sons' sons: and the glory of sons their fathers.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they vigorously wash hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.

I shall understand above the old men, for I watched thy charges.

Her husband was known in the gates, in his sitting with the old men of the land.

And it was in the sixth year, in the sixth, in the fifth to the month, I sitting in my house, and the old men of Judah sitting before me, and the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.

Against an elder receive not an accusation from without, except from two or three witnesses.

I said, days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make known wisdom.

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

The twenty-four elders will fall before him sitting on the throne, and will worship him living forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

And Moses will go up, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy from the old men of Israel

Thou wilt not cast me off to the time of old age; as my strength fails thou wilt not forsake me.

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

A nation strong of face who shall not lift up the face to the old man, and shall not compassionate the young.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the old men of Israel, whom thou knewest that they were old men of the people, and their scribes; and take them to the tent of appointment, and they shall stand there with thee.

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren;

Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders.

The old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little ones, and women, ye shall slay to destruction: and every man which upon him the mark, ye shall not touch; and ye shall begin from my holy place. And they will begin upon the old men which are before the house

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

And having chosen them elders in the church, having prayed with fasting, they set them before the Lord, in whom they had believed.

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her broad places.

And he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled, and he will consult the children which grew up with him, standing before him.

Removing the lip to the faithful, and he will take discernment of old men.

Them having sinned rebuke before all, that the rest also have fear.

And the people were pressed, man by man, and a man by his neighbor: the boy shall enlarge himself against the old man and the despised against the honorable.

Gather the people, consecrate the convocation, assemble the old men, gather the children and those sucking the breasts: the bridegroom shall come forth from his chamber and the bride from her nuptial couch.

And Israel will serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the old men who prolonged the days after Joshua, and who knew all the works of Jehovah which he did to Israel.

But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand.

The glory of young men their strength: and the ornament of old men gray hair.

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and scribes, and the more ancient of the people, into the court-yard of the chief priest, called Caliaphas,

The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed:

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell and worshipped God sitting upon the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

And he will say, I sinned this time; honor me now before the old men of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me, and I worshipped to Jehovah thy God.

Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.

And round about the throne twenty-four thrones; and sitting upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders, surrounded with white garments; and they had golden crowns upon their heads.

They shall yet sprout in old as; they shall be fat and green.

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I will deliver.

Come, and gather together the old men of Israel, and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was seen to me, the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob, saying, Reviewing, I reviewed you and what was done to you in Egypt

And I gave boys their chiefs, and the petulant shall rule over them.

And Sarah shall conceive, and bring forth to Abraham a son to his old age, at the appointed time which God spake to him.

And he brought me to the door of the enclosure, and I saw, and behold, one hole in the wall.

And king Rehoboam will consult the old men which were standing before Solomon his father in his being alive saying, How advise ye to turn back this people word?