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Bible Verses About taking care of older people
17 key scriptures
Explore what the Bible says about taking care of older people. This collection of 17 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Leviticus 19:32 |
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| King James (KJV) | “Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.” |
17 Key Scriptures
“Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.”
“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.”
Exodus 20:12KJV
“The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.”
“Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 5:5KJV
“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.”
Isaiah 46:4KJV
“And 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;”
Luke 2:36KJV
“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”
“With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.”
Job 12:12KJV
“Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.”
Psalms 71:9KJV
“The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.”
“Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;”
“For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.”
Matthew 15:4KJV
“That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. sober: or, vigilant”
Titus 2:2KJV
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“Honour widows that are widows indeed.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
James 1:27KJV
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