28 Bible Verses about Aging

The silver-haired head is a crown of splendor and glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.

‘You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the Lord.

Even to your old age I am He,
And even to your advanced old age I will carry you!
I have made you, and I will carry you;
Be assured I will carry you and I will save you.

“With the aged [you say] is wisdom,
And with long life is understanding.

[Growing in grace] they will still thrive and bear fruit and prosper in old age;
They will flourish and be vital and fresh [rich in trust and love and contentment];

Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.

“You will come to your grave in old age,
Like the stacking of grain [on the threshing floor] in its season.

Then Abraham breathed his last and he died at a good old age, an old man who was satisfied [with life]; and he was gathered to his people [who had preceded him in death].

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

Grandchildren are the crown of aged men,
And the glory of children is their fathers [who live godly lives].

“With a long life I will satisfy him
And I will let him see My salvation.”

He died in a good old age [his seventy-first year], full of days (satisfied), riches and honor. Solomon his son reigned in his place.

“I thought age should speak,
And a multitude of years should teach wisdom.

The days of our life are seventy years—
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days,
That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.

If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and My commandments, as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days.”

“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

Older women similarly are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor addicted to much wine, teaching what is right and good, so that they may encourage the young women to tenderly love their husbands and their children, to be sensible, pure, makers of a home [where God is honored], good-natured, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in steadfastness [Christlike in character]. Older women similarly are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor addicted to much wine, teaching what is right and good,

Do not sharply reprimand an older man, but appeal to him as [you would to] a father, to younger men as brothers, to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters, in all purity [being careful to maintain appropriate relationships].

And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,
Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

And now, look, the Lord has let me live, just as He said, these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, look at me, I am eighty-five years old today.

Although Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eyesight was not dim, nor his natural strength abated.

As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.

I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all that You have done;
I ponder the work of Your hands.

“He deprives the trusted ones of speech
And takes away the discernment and discretion of the aged.

‘Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that your days [on the earth] may be prolonged and so that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.