50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

With the aged is wisdom, and understanding in length of days.

It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged who understand judgment.

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah.

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they immerse their hands with the fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in Word and doctrine.

I understand more than the old men, because I keep Your Commandments.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

And it was in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. And the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell on me there.

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except before two or three witnesses.

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

older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity.

the twenty-four elders fell down before the One sitting on the throne. And they worshiped Him who lives for ever and ever, and threw their crowns before the throne, saying,

And Moses went up, 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 fails.

Is any sick among you? 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 fierce of face who shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and the officers over them. And bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation so that they may stand there with you.

Do not sharply rebuke an elder, but exhort as a father, and the younger ones as brothers,

Do not neglect the gift in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the body of elders.

Fully destroy old men, young men and virgins, and little children and women. But do not come near any man on whom is the mark. And begin at My sanctuary. And they began at the old men who were before the house.

And on the next day Paul went with us to James. And all the elders were present.

And having hand-picked elders for them in every church, and had prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord into whom they believed.

Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

But he departed from the advice which the old men gave him and listened to the young men who were brought up with him, who stood before him.

He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

Those who sin, rebuke before all, so that the rest also may fear.

And the people shall be crushed, every man by another, and every man by his neighbor; the boy shall act proudly against the old man, and the low against the honorable.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the children and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of Jehovah that He had done for Israel.

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

The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

if anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of loose behavior, or disobedient.

Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

I exhort the elders who are among you, I being also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God sitting on the throne, saying, Amen! Hallelujah!

Then he said, I have sinned. Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and turn again with me. And I shall worship Jehovah your God.

Hear advice, and receive instruction, so that you may be wise in your latter end.

And around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones. And on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white clothing. And they had crowns of gold on their heads.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flowering;

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

even to old age I am He; and to gray hairs I will bear you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Go, and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, Jehovah the God of your fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have surely visited you and have seen what is done to you in Egypt.

And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them.

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

And He brought me to the opening of the court; and I looked, and behold, a hole in the wall.

And King Rehoboam talked with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he still lived, and said, How do you advise to return a word to this people?