Old Age

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

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

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.

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

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

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

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.

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

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

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

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.

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

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.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. — 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:

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

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

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

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

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 →

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

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

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

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

And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

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.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

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 →

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

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?

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

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

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

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

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

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

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

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

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

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 →

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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.

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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 →

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

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

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; — read the full passage →

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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.

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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:

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

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: — read the full passage →

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

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

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

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

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. — read the full passage →

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

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 →

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.