Bible Verses about “taking care of older people”

“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.”

“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.”

“and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;”

“Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.”

“Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”

“"'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.”

“The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.”

“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.”

“that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:”

“Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.”

“the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.”

“Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;”

“For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'”

“With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.”

“There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,”

“and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.”

“Honor widows who are widows indeed.”

“Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.”

“he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.”

“But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"”

“But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.”

“Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.”

“Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.”

“Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.”