28 Bible Verses about Aging

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

"You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

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

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

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

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

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

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

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation."

Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."

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.

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which 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 of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

"'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.