Caring For The Elderly

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

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

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! — read the full passage →

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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.

Honour widows that are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. — read the full passage →

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

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

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

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

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. — read the full passage →

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: — read the full passage →

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) — read the full passage →

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

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

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?

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. — read the full passage →

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: — read the full passage →

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. — read the full passage →

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: — 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 →

The elders which 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:

Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. — read the full passage →

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: — read the full passage →

Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: — read the full passage →

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. — read the full passage →

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. — read the full passage →

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. — read the full passage →

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.