16 Bible Verses about Retirement

After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.

Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

They will still yield fruit in old age;
They shall be full of sap and very green,

Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

A gray head is a crown of glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.

And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray,

When the apostles returned, they gave an account to Him of all that they had done. Taking them with Him, He withdrew by Himself to a city called Bethsaida.

Jesus got up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice.

And He *said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.)

As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,

Six days later Jesus *took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and *led them up on a high mountain by themselves.

Departing from there, Jesus went along by the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there.

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been borne by Me from birth
And have been carried from the womb;
Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.