Bible Verses about “caring for aging parents”
The Bible contains 23 verses about caring for aging parents across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.”
“But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.”
“And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].”
“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”
“¶ Rebuke not an elder, but intreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren;”
“Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“‹For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:›”
“Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.”
“¶ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.”
“For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood [shall be] upon him.”
“‹And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;›”
“‹Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.›”
“Then saith he to the disciple, ‹Behold thy mother!› And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own [home].”
“When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, ‹Woman, behold thy son!›”
“‹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother,› [It is] ‹Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;› [he shall be free].”
“Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.”
“Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.”
“Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:”