28 Bible Verses about Aging

The gray head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah.

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

With the aged is wisdom, and understanding in length of days.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flowering;

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

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and satisfied. And he was gathered to his people.

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

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are 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, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

I said, Days should speak, and the multitude of years should teach wisdom.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.

And if you will walk in My ways, to keep 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.

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good; that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.

aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience. Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

Do not sharply rebuke an elder, but exhort as a father, and the younger ones as brothers, older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity.

And now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not leave me; until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

And now, behold, Jehovah has kept me alive these forty-five years as He said, even since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, lo, I am eighty-five years old today.

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor had he lost any of his natural strength.

And 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 all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.

I remember the days of old; I think on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands.

He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.