56 Bible Verses about Old Age, Attitudes To

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

Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood.

The hoary head is a crown of glory. It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

Do not rebuke an elder man, but entreat him as a father, younger men as brothers,

Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

For he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion. I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye to me to return an answer to this people? And they spoke to him, saying, If thou will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever. But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do ye give me to return an answer to this people? And they spoke to him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever. But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.

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

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

Yea, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared thy strength to a generation, thy might to everyone who is to come.

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen a righteous man forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

to bind his rulers at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into thy hand. Thou showed them no mercy. Upon the aged thou have laid thy yoke very heavily.

Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.

And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand, and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you i And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey. And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shall come, thou and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and ye shall say to him, LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' jou

And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel. And Aaron spoke all the words which LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed. And when they heard that LORD had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which LORD commanded him.

And LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took from the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders. And it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no mor

But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and smites him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

then the father of the damsel, and her mother, shall take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. And the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he dislikes her. And, lo, he has charged her with shameful things, saying, I did not find in thy daughter the tokens of virginity, and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the cread more.
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron. And king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.

And those who seized Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest where the scholars and the elders were assembled together.

And they led Jesus away to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scholars assemble with him.

Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Faithful is the saying, If any man aspires to supervision, he desires a good work. The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach, no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,read more.
a man who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all propriety (but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?), not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil. And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

I left thee behind in Crete on account of this: That thou should set in order the things lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded thee, if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate. For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,read more.
but a lover of strangers, a lover of good, serious minded, just, devout, self-controlled, holding firm the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may also be able to exhort by the sound doctrine, and to correct those who contradict.

Is any man weak among you? Let him summon the elders of the congregation, and let them pray near him, having anointed him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

I, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory going be revealed, exhort the elders among you: Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,

I beheld till thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven [somebody] like a son of man. And he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

And his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire,

but LORD will endure forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment,

LORD sat [as King] at the Flood. Yea, LORD sits as King forever.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he.

Thus says LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, LORD of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.