50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

"Among old persons there is wisdom, and among the aged is understanding.

Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.

Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoar head and reverence the face of the old man; and dread thy God, for I am the LORD.

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not; observing the traditions of the elders.

The elders that rule well are worthy of double honour, most specially they which labour in the word and in teaching.

Yea, I am wiser than the aged, for I keep thy commandments.

Her husband is much set by in the gates, when he sitteth among the rulers of the land.

It happened that in the sixth year, the fifth day of the sixth Month, I sat in my house, and the lords of the counsel of Judah with me. And the hand of the LORD God fell even there upon me.

Against an elder receive none accusation: but under two or three witnesses.

for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom.

the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all pureness.

the twenty four elders fell down before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth forever, and cast their crowns before the throne saying,

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

Cast me not away in mine old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth me.

If any be diseased among you, let him call for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord:

a hard-favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Gather unto me seventy of the elders of Israel, which thou knowest that they are the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them unto the tabernacle of witness, and let them stand there with thee.

Rebuke not an elder: but exhort him as a father, and the younger men as brethren,

Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee through prophecy, and with laying on of the hands of an elder.

kill and destroy both old man and young, maidens, children and wives. But as for those, that have the mark upon them: see that ye touch them not. And begin at my Sanctuary." Then they began at the elders, which were in the temple,

And on the morrow, Paul went in with us unto James. And all the elders came together.

And when they had ordained them elders by election in every congregation, after they had prayed and fasted, they commended them to God on whom they believed.

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

And the streets of the city shall be filled with boys and wenches playing in the streets thereof.

But he left the counsel which the elders gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were nursed up with him and had stand in his presence,

He taketh the verity from out of the mouth, and disappointeth the aged of their wisdom.

Them that sin, rebuke openly that others may fear.

One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.

Gather the people together; bring the elders to one place; gather the young children and they that suck the breasts, together. Let the bridegroom come out of his chamber and the bride out of her parlour.

And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had seen all the works of the LORD that he had done to Israel.

But if he hear thee not, then take yet with thee one or two, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, all things may be established.

The strength of young men is their worship; and a grey head, is a honour unto the aged.

If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:

The elders which are among you I exhort, which am also an elder and a witness of the afflictions of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be opened:

And the twenty four elders and the four beasts fell down, and worshipped God that sat on the seat saying, "Amen, Hallelujah!"

Then he said, "I have sinned. But yet honour me before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may pray unto the LORD thy God."

O give ear unto good counsel, and be content to be reformed; that thou mayest be wise here after.

And about the seat were twenty four seats. And I saw upon the seats twenty four elders sitting clothed in white raiment, and had on their heads crowns of gold.

They shall also bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well liking,

see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.

I, I which shall bear you unto your last age, I have made you; I will also nourish you, bear you and save you.

Go therefore and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them, 'the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, appeared unto me and said: I have been and seen both you and that which is done to you in Egypt.

And I shall give you children to be your princes, sayeth the LORD, and babes shall have the rule of you.

And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age, even the same season which the LORD had appointed.

And with that brought he me to the court gate: and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that stood before Solomon his father, while he yet lived, and said, "What counsel give ye to answer this people withal?"