28 Bible Verses about Aging

Age is a crown of worship, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoar head and reverence the face of the old man; and dread thy God, for I am the LORD.

I, I which shall bear you unto your last age, I have made you; I will also nourish you, bear you and save you.

"Among old persons there is wisdom, and among the aged is understanding.

They shall also bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well liking,

Cast me not away in mine old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth me.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.

and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age - when he had lived enough - and was put unto his people.

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

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

And he died in a good age: old, rich and glorious. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

O teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep mine ordinances and commandments as David thy father did walk, I will lengthen thy days also."

Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things, to make the young women soberminded, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be of discreet, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.

That the elder men be sober, honest, discreet, sound in the faith, in love and in patience. And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

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

Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

And now behold, the LORD hath kept me lusty, as he said, this forty and five years, even since the LORD spake unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now see I am this day four score and five years:

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, and yet his eyes were not dim nor his cheeks abated.

Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:

Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

Yet do I remember the times past; I muse upon all thy works. Yea, I exercise myself in the works of thy hands.

He taketh the verity from out of the mouth, and disappointeth the aged of their wisdom.

'Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: that thou mayest prolong thy days, and that it may go well with thee on the land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.