Age

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. — read the full passage →

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. — read the full passage →

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. — read the full passage →

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. — read the full passage →

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. — read the full passage →

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. — read the full passage →

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. — read the full passage →

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. — read the full passage →

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. — read the full passage →

O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; — read the full passage →

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. — read the full passage →

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

Give us this day our daily bread.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: — read the full passage →