Old age

Old age is spoken of throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on honoring the aged, God's care in old age, wisdom and age, instructions to older believers, the length of life, and examples of the old.

Honoring the aged

• Leviticus 19:32
  Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
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• Proverbs 16:31
  The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
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• Proverbs 20:29
  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
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• 1 Timothy 5:1-2
  ¹Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; ²The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
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God's care in old age

• Isaiah 46:4
  And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
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• Psalm 71:9
  Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
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• Psalm 71:18
  Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
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• Psalm 92:14
  They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
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Wisdom and age

• Job 12:12
  With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
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• Job 32:7
  I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
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Instructions to older believers

• Titus 2:2-3
  ²That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. ³The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
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The length of life

• Psalm 90:10
  The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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• Psalm 90:12
  So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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• Ecclesiastes 12:1
  Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
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• 2 Corinthians 4:16
  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
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Examples

• Genesis 21:2
  For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
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• Joshua 14:10-11
  ¹⁰And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. ¹¹As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
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• Luke 2:36-37
  ³⁶And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; ³⁷And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
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See also

• Death
• Wisdom
• Honoring parents
• Widows and orphans

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
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