Bible Verses about “old people”
The Bible contains 19 verses about old people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But 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.”
“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.”
“that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;”
“Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.”
“Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.”
“"'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.”
“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:”
“The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.”
“But say the things which fit sound doctrine,”
“Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.”
“Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”