57 Bible Verses about Old Age, Attitudes To

From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

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

Old age a crown of glorying, shall be found in the way of justice.

The glory of young men their strength: and the ornament of old men gray hair.

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren;

Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.

And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die.

When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him.

Cursed he making light of his father and his mother: and all the people said, Amen.

The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die:

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;) That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.

Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge. I said, days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make known wisdom.

And king Rehoboam will consult the old men which were standing before Solomon his father in his being alive saying, How advise ye to turn back this people word? And they will speak to him, saying, If this day thou wilt be a servant to this people and serve them, and answer them, and speak to them good words, and they were servants to thee all the days. And he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him, and he will consult with the children which grew up with him which were standing before him.

And king Rehoboam will consult with the old men who were standing before Solomon his father in his being alive, saying, How counsel ye me to turn back word to this people? And they will speak to him, saying, If thou wilt be for good to this people, and pleasing them, and speak to them good words, and they were servants to thee all the days. And he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled, and he will consult the children which grew up with him, standing before him.

With old men is wisdom, and length of days, understanding

Also the gray headed and old man with us, great of days above thy fathers.

And also even to old age and grayness, O God, thou wilt not forsake me; till I shall announce thine arm to the generation, thy strength to every one who shall come:

For ask now to the first generation, and prepare to seek their fathers:

I was a youth, also I grew old, and I saw not the just one forsaken and his seed seeking bread. All the day he compassionates and lends; and his seed to be blessed.

Not the many will be wise: and old men understand judgment.

To bind his chiefs in his soul, and to make his old men wise.

And the people were pressed, man by man, and a man by his neighbor: the boy shall enlarge himself against the old man and the despised against the honorable.

A nation strong of face who shall not lift up the face to the old man, and shall not compassionate the young.

And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock.

I was angry against my people; I defiled my inheritances, and I will give them into thine hand, and thou didst not set mercy to them; upon the old thou didst make heavy thy yoke greatly.

Chiefs were hung by their hand: the faces of old men were not honored.

And Joseph will go up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh will go up with him, the old men of his house, and all the old men of the land of Egypt

And the old men of Moab and the old men of Midian, will go, and divinations in their hand; and they will come to Balsam, and they will speak to him the words of Balak.

Come, and gather together the old men of Israel, and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was seen to me, the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob, saying, Reviewing, I reviewed you and what was done to you in Egypt And saying, I will bring you up from the affliction of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey. And they heard thy voice; and thou camest, thou and the old men of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and ye said to him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, met with us; and now will we go a way of three days into the desert, and we will sacrifice to Jehovah our God.

And Moses will go, and Aaron, and they will gather together all the old men of the sons of Israel. And Aaron will speak all the words which Jehovah spoke to Moses, and he will do the signs in the eyes of the people. And the people will believe: and they will hear that Jehovah reviewed the sons of Israel, and that he saw their affliction, and they will bow down and worship.

And Moses will go and will call to the old men of the people, and he will set before them all these words that Jehovah commanded him.

And Jehovah will come down in the cloud, and will speak to him, and he will take from the spirit which is upon him, and will give upon the seventy men, the old men: and it shall be in the resting of the spirit upon them, and they shall prophesy, and they shall not cease.

And if there shall be a man hating his friend and lying in wait for him, and he rose up against him and smote him in soul, and he died, and he fled to one of these cities: And the old men of his city sent and took him from there and gave him into the hand of the nearest relative of blood, and he died.

And the father of the young girl took, and her mother, and brought the signs of virginity of the young girl to the elders of the city to the gate: And the father of the maiden said to the old men, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife and he will hate her, And behold, he set up pretexts of words, saying, I found not in thy daughter the signs of virginity; and these the signs of my daughter's virginity. And they spread the garment before the old men of the city.read more.
And the old men of that city took the man and chastised him;

And if the man shall not desire to take his brother's wife, and his brother's wife went up to the gate to the old men, and said, My husband's brother refused to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, and he would not act my husband's brother.

And all the old men of Israel will come to the king to Hebron; and king David will cut out for them a covenant in Hebron before Jehovah, and they will anoint David for king over Israel

And they having held Jesus, brought to Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and elders were gathered together.

And they led Jesus away to the pontificate: and all the chief priests and elders and scribes came with him.

Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.

Faithful the word, If any strive for superintendence, he eagerly desires a good work. Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;read more.
Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity; (And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser. And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser.

For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee: If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly. For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.read more.
But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm; Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing.

Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord:

The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed: Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

I was seeing even till thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days sat, his garment white as snow, and the hair of his head as pure wool: his throne a flame of fire, his wheels a burning fire.

I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as the Son of man he came, and turning even to the Ancient of days; and they brought him near before him.

And his head and hairs white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;

And Jehovah shall dwell forever: he prepared his throne for judgment

Jehovah sat upon the inundation: and Jehovah sat King forever.

Before the mountains were born, and the earth shall be begun, and the habitable globe, and from forever even to forever, thou art God.

Who made and did, calling the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Thus said Jehovah king of Israel, and Jehovah of armies, redeeming him, I the first and I the last; and besides me no God.