Senior Citizens

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

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

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. — read the full passage →

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

Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! — 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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet 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 →

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 →

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.

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

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

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?”

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

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.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“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.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — 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 →

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

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. — 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.

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

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

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

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,

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.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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.”

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.

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

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; — read the full passage →

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. — read the full passage →

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

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 →

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

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.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

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

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. — read the full passage →

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. — read the full passage →

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.

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

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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 →

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,