Taking Care Of Older People

“‘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.

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

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.

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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

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 rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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 →

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

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.

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 →

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

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.

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

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

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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 →

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.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

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 →

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

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

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

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; — read the full passage →

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.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace; — read the full passage →

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

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

Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →