49 Bible Verses about The Elderly

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

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

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask thy father, and he will show thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.

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.

Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands carefully, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders.

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

I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts.

Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of lord LORD fell there upon me.

Accept no accusation against an elder, except at two or three witnesses.

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

elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

the twenty-four elders would fall down before him who sits on the throne, and would worship him who lives into the ages of the ages, and would cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

Then Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

Cast me not off in the time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength fails.

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.

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

And LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them. And bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.

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

Do not neglect the gift in thee, which was given thee by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

Kill utterly the old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little sons, and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

And on the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.

And having appointed elders for them in every congregation, having prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets of it.

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.

He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

Those who sin, rebuke in the sight of all, so that the others may also have fear.

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.

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the old men. Gather the sons, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

And Israel served LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of LORD that he had wrought for Israel.

But if he should not hear, take with thee one or two besides, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

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

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.

Then the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

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:

And the twenty-four elders and the four beings fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, Truly! Praise Lord!

Then he said, I have sinned. Yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship LORD thy God.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou may be wise in thy latter end.

And around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and upon the thrones were sitting twenty-four elders clothed in white garments, and golden crowns upon their heads.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap and green

Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,

And even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs I will carry [you]. I have made, and I will bear, yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

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 will give sons to be their rulers, and babes shall rule over them.

And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

And he brought me to the door of the court. And when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

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?