Taking Care Of Elders

“‘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.

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

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.”

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

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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.

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 →

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

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

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

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

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

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

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 →

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law, — 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 →

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.

Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, — read the full passage →