Bible Verses about “taking care of older people”

“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.”

“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.”

“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”

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

“¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”

“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.”

“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].”

“That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.”

“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;”

“‹For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.›”

“¶ 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.”

“¶ Honour widows that are widows indeed.”

“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.”

“‹And honour not his father or his mother,› [he shall be free]. ‹Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.›”

“‹But ye say, Whosoever shall say to› [his] ‹father or› [his] ‹mother,› [It is] ‹a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;›”

“But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”

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

“Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.”

“And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.”