Elderly

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

“‘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.

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

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

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

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 →

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

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

“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.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

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

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

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

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?”

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

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

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

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.”

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.

“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.

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

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

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 →

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

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 →

“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 →

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

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

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:

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

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.”

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

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

He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”

Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, — read the full passage →

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ 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.

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 →

“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 →

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

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

Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

“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.

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

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

So Job died, being old and full of days.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

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

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

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

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

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

“You shall not murder.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

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.”