50 Bible Verses about The Elderly

King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you counsel me to answer this people?”

Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

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

And I will make mere lads their princes,
And capricious children will rule over them,

Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness;

They will still yield fruit in old age;
They shall be full of sap and very green,

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.

Listen to counsel and accept discipline,
That you may be wise the rest of your days.

Then he said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”

Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed,

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas;

namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

The glory of young men is their strength,
And the honor of old men is their gray hair.

But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed.

Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

‘You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and the nursing infants.
Let the bridegroom come out of his room
And the bride out of her bridal chamber.

And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The youth will storm against the elder
And the inferior against the honorable.

Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

“He deprives the trusted ones of speech
And takes away the discernment of the elders.

But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.’

Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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

Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the elders who were before the temple.

Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery.

Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers,

The Lord therefore said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

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

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

the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

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

“I thought age should speak,
And increased years should teach wisdom.

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.

It came about in the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell on me there.

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

I understand more than the aged,
Because I have observed Your precepts.

The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders;

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

“The abundant in years may not be wise,
Nor may elders understand justice.

“Wisdom is with aged men,
With long life is understanding.