Caring For The Elderly

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

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

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: — read the full passage →

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to 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 aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

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

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?”

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. — read the full passage →

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. — read the full passage →

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. — read the full passage →

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

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years. — read the full passage →

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” — read the full passage →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; — read the full passage →

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

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender 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 to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come. — read the full passage →

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. — read the full passage →

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

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

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.