Bible Verses about “caring for the elderly”

“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;)”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“‹For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:›”

“¶ The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it be found in the way of righteousness.”

“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.”

“The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.”

“¶ Rebuke not an elder, but intreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren;”

“¶ Honour widows that are widows indeed.”

“Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.”

“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!›”