Bible Verses about “caring for elderly parents”
The Bible contains 24 verses about caring for elderly parents across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,”
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:”
“"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."”
“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
“"'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.”
“But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.”
“and 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.”
“Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.”
“Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;”
“"Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'”
“Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.”
“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,”
“making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."”
“Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.”
“Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"”
“He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.”
“But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'”
“But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.”
“"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;”