50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

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

It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and shalt honour the face of an old man; and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients;

Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.

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

And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, that as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.

Against an elder receive not an accusation unless where there are two or three witnesses.

I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

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

the twenty-four elders shall fall before him that sits upon the throne, and do homage to him that lives to the ages of ages; and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

And 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 faileth.

Is any sick among you? let him call to him the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young;

And Jehovah said to Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and their officers; and take them to the tent of meeting, and they shall stand there with thee.

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,

Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood.

Slay utterly the old man, the young man, and the maiden, and little children, and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the elders who were before the house.

And on the morrow Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders came there.

And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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

But he forsook the advice of the old men which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up with him, that stood before him.

He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;

Those that sin convict before all, that the rest also may have fear.

And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.

gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her closet.

And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua, and who had known all the works of Jehovah, which he had done for Israel.

But if he do not hear thee, take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.

The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the grey head.

if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am their fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also am partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and did homage to God who sits upon the throne, saying, Amen, Hallelujah.

And he said, I have sinned; honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

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

And round the throne twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones twenty-four elders sitting, clothed with white garments; and on their heads golden crowns.

They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;

Even to old age, I am HE, and unto hoary hairs I will carry you: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I will carry, and will deliver.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, I have indeed visited you, and seen that which is done unto you in Egypt;

And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.

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

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

And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do ye advise to return answer to this people?