Senior Citizens

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

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

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.

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

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

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

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

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. — read the full passage →

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

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. — read the full passage →

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

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

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

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

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: — read the full passage →

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

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

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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:

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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.

Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. — read the full passage →

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

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

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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

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:

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: — read the full passage →

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. — 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.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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

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

And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

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 let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

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

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. — read the full passage →

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. — 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.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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 →

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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:

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,