30 Bible Verses About Gray Hair

“Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord.”

“Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.”

“The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.”

“Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?”

“So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: ‘I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know. I thought, “Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.”’”

“Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”

“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”

“Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.”

“Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”

“Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.”

“Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.”

“In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’”

“It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right.”

“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, ‘I find no pleasure in them’— before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain.”

“They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.”

“The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.”

“The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.”

“Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.”

“The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.”

“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

“However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.”

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.”

“Do not say, ‘Why were the old days better than these?’ For it is not wise to ask such questions.”

“Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?”

“On the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;”

“when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.”

“Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well,”

“and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”

“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.”

“For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”