Bible Verses about โagingโ
The Bible contains 18 verses about aging across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ
โand that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;โ
โChildren's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.โ
โGray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.โ
โ"'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.โ
โTherefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.โ
โI have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.โ
โThe glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.โ
โand even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.โ
โwho satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.โ
โWith aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.โ
โThey will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,โ
โThey are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.โ
โThe righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.โ
โDon't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.โ
โto show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.โ
โYes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.โ
โ"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;โ
