28 Bible Verses about Aging

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

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

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

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

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

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

Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

With long life will I 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 stead.

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

The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience; The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day eighty five years old.

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

I remember the days of old, I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.