Taking Care Of Elderly Parents

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

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

“‘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.

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

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

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

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ — read the full passage →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

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

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

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.”

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.

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

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

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

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

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will 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; the glory of children are their parents.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings 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 unstained by the world.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

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

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” — read the full passage →

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ — read the full passage →

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble 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 →

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

“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.

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

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t 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 who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

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

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

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

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait. — read the full passage →

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles 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 no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; — read the full passage →

What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.

Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

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

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this 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 on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

But, because of sexual immoralities, 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 authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

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

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

“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. — read the full passage →

Woe to him who gets 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 who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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

Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to 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.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

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

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men, — read the full passage →

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

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →