Scriptures about old age, God's support in later years, and respect for elders.
11 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Psalm 71:9
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; when my strength fails, do not forsake me,
Psalm 71:18
And even to old age and gray hairs, do not forsake me, O God, until I declare Your strength to this generation and Your power to all who are to come.
Isaiah 46:4
and even to your old age I am He, and even to your gray hairs I will carry you; I have made you, and I will carry, sustain, and protect you.
Psalm 92:12–15
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree; they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon. 13 Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God; 14 they will still bear fruit in old age; they will remain fresh and green, 15 proclaiming, “The Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”
Leviticus 19:32
Stand up in the presence of the gray-haired and honor the face of the elderly, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord [your God].
Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 20:29
The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair is the splendor of the old.
Ecclesiastes 12:1–7
1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come and the years arrive when you will say, “I take no pleasure in them!” 2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain. 3 On the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the mighty men stoop; when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim; 4 when the doors to the street are shut, when the sound of the mill fades, when a person rises at the crowing of the rooster, and all the daughters of song grow faint; 5 when people fear heights and terrors lie in the road; when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry fails. For a person goes to his eternal home, and mourners go about the streets; – 6 before the silver cord is severed, the golden bowl is broken, the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the well. 7 Then the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
1 Timothy 5:1–2
1 Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; treat younger men as brothers; 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Job 12:12
Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the long-lived.
Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, nor had his strength diminished.
