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Bible Verses About growing old

12 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about growing old? Browse 12 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Proverbs 16:31
King James (KJV)The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

12 Key Scriptures

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
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.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. house: or, kindred
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, the grinders: or, the grinders fail, because they grind little
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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