50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

"You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

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

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

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

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.

Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'

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

the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

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

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

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.

Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.

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

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.

And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.

gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

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

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!"

Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the LORD your God."

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight,not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you;not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,

And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

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

And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?"