Respecting The Elderly

“‘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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

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

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

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

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

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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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

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

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

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

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.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

“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.

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

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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.

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

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.

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

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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.

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

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.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

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.

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

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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

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

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

Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. — read the full passage →

“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.

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

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, — read the full passage →

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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 →

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

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.