Bible Verses about “old age”
The Bible contains 15 verses about old age across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.”
“¶ Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.”
“¶ 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.”
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.”
“I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
“¶ The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head.”
“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].”
“That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.”
“The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
“¶ With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.”
“They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;”
“Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.”
“Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.”
“Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.”