Taking Care Of Elderly Parents

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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

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

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. — read the full passage →

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), — read the full passage →

The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: — read the full passage →

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? — read the full passage →

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold, thy son! — read the full passage →

The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

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

If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. — read the full passage →

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

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

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

He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord. — read the full passage →

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

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

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. — read the full passage →

But godliness with contentment is great gain: — read the full passage →

for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Honor widows that are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death, — read the full passage →

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate. — read the full passage →

Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not; — read the full passage →

If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

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

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; — read the full passage →

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?

Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: — read the full passage →

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.

Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his saints.

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: — read the full passage →

that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. — read the full passage →

And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. — read the full passage →

Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.

Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:

Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — read the full passage →

and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain. — read the full passage →

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

who will render to every man according to his works:

Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. — read the full passage →

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: — read the full passage →

Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. — read the full passage →