28 Bible Verses about Aging

Old age is a crown of glory if it is found in the way of righteousness.

Thou shalt rise up before grey hair and honour the face of the elder and fear thy God. I am the LORD.

And even to your old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you; I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will deliver you.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days intelligence.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be vigorous and flourishing

Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of wheat that is gathered in its season.

Then Abraham expired and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the honour of the children are their fathers.

With long life I will satisfy him and show him my saving health.

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and glory; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

I said, Days shall speak, and the multitude of years shall declare wisdom.

The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments as thy father David walked, then I will lengthen thy days.

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee;

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty; that they may teach the young women to be prudent, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be temperate, chaste, good housekeepers, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed.

that the aged men be temperate, venerable, prudent, sound in faith, in charity, in tolerance. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren, the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not until I have showed the strength of thy arm unto the next generation and thy power to every one that is to come,

And now, behold, the LORD has caused me to live, as he said, these forty-five years from the time that the LORD spoke these words unto Moses, while Israel has walked in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

And Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, where thou goest.

I remembered the days of old; I meditated on all thy works; I mused on the work of thy hands.

He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God has commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.