Bible Verses about “old people”
The Bible contains 19 verses about old people 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.”
“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
“¶ 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.”
“¶ 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.”
“¶ But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:”
“Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.”
“¶ With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.”
“And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;”
“And she [was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [God] with fastings and prayers night and day.”
“And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.”
“Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.”
“And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”