28 Bible Verses about Aging

A crown of glory is gray hair; by a righteous life it is gained.

" '{Before} old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I [am] Yahweh.

Even to [your] old age I [am] he; even to [your] advanced age I myself will support [you]. I myself have made [you], and I myself will carry [you], and I myself will support [you], and I will save [you].

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

They will still prosper in old age. They will be fat and luxuriant,

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

You shall come in maturity to [the] grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.

And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people.

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

The crown of the elderly [are] {grandchildren}, and the glory of children [is] their fathers.

[With] {long life} I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

And he died in a good old age, full of days, wealth, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

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

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

So teach [us] to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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

Remember [the] old days, {the years long past}; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you.

Older women likewise [are to be] reverent in [their] behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands [and to] love their children, [to be] self-controlled, pure, busy at home, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be slandered.

Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, [and] in endurance. Older women likewise [are to be] reverent in [their] behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to [him] as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

And even when [I am] old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your {strength} to [this] generation, your power to every [one that] comes [after].

So then, look, Yahweh has kept me alive just as he promised these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses while Israel {wandered} in the wilderness. Now look, today {I am eighty-five years old}.

{Now Moses was a hundred and twenty years old} {when he died}; {his sight was not impaired and his vigor had not abated}.

And [as for] you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Whatever your hand finds to do--do [it] with [all] your might; for in Sheol--where you are going--no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

I remember [the] days of long ago; I meditate on all your doings. I muse on the labor of your hands.

He deprives [the] trustworthy of speech, and he takes away [the] discretion of elders.

'Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, so that it will be good for you {in the land} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you.