Bible Verses about โgrandparentsโ
The Bible contains 40 verses about grandparents across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.โ
โto be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.โ
โthat they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,โ
โand that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;โ
โA cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.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
โA good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.โ
โHe gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.โ
โSo teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.โ
โI have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.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
โthat older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:โ
โEven the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;โ
โBut say the things which fit sound doctrine,โ
โHaven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.โ
โBut Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;โ
โThey will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,โ
โhaving been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.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
โOne generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.โ
โkeeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."โ
โOnly take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;โ
โYou, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.โ
โMy lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!โ
โYahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,โ
โGod, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.โ
โMy tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. By Solomon.โ
โMy mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.โ
โI will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.โ
โIncrease my honor, and comfort me again.โ
โFor my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,โ
โBut I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.โ
โI will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.โ
โsaying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."โ
โGod, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.โ
โLet my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.โ
โYour righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?โ
