50 Bible Verses about The Elderly
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Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
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 the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Is any sick among you? 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 nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:
And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, 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 elderly men who were before the house.
And the day following Paul went in with us to James: and all the elders were present.
And when they had ordained for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honorable.
Gather the people, sanctify 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 out of her closet.
And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel.
But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in 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 gray head.
If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or disorderly.
Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
The elders who are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
And the four and twenty elders and the four living beings fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
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 the LORD thy God.
And around the throne were four and twenty seats; and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but from a ready mind;
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and say to them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
For 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 consulted with the old men that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
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Isaiah 46:4And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.