50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

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

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

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 an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

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

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

Let the elders who 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 your precepts.

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

It happened 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 Yahweh fell there on me.

Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word 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 twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

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

Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

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

a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not respect the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

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

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

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

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."

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

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

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

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.

Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!"

Then he said, "I have sinned: yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God."

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

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

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;

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

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

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

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?"