Elderly

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

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

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

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

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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 →

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. — read the full passage →

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

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, — read the full passage →

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you; — read the full passage →

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

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. — 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.

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.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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 →

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

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”