old age
What does the Bible say about old age? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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31Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
4Even to your old age, I am the same. And even with your grey hairs, I will carry you. I have made you, and I will sustain you. I will carry you, and I will save you.
12In old age is wisdom, and in length of days is prudence.
15They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,
18even in old age and with grey hairs. Do not abandon me, O God, while I announce your arm to every future generation: your power
9Do not cast me off in the time of old age. Do not abandon me when my strength will fail.
29The joy of youths is their strength. And the dignity of old men is their grey hairs.
32Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.
16For this reason, we are not insufficient. But it is as though our outer man is corrupted, while our inner man is renewed from day to day.
31But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.
10The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.
6Sons of sons are the crown of old age. And the glory of sons is their fathers.
25I have been young, and now I am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his offspring seeking bread.
26You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.
2Old men should be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.