6 Bible Verses about Caring For The Elderly

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.

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

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

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 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion. I said, Days should speak, and the multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.