- Job 12:12:
“Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?”
- Job 32:7:
“I thought, ‘Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.’”
- Psalm 71:9:
“Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.”
- Proverbs 16:31:
“Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.”
- Proverbs 20:29:
“The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.”
- Isaiah 46:4:
“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.”
- 1 Timothy 5:1:
“Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,”
- Titus 2:2:
“Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.”
- Titus 2:3:
“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.”
- Job 32:9:
“It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right.”
- Psalm 92:14:
“They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,”
- Proverbs 23:22:
“Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
- Leviticus 19:32:
“Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord.”
- Psalm 71:18:
“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.”
- Psalm 37:25:
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.”
- Psalm 90:12:
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
- 1 Kings 12:6:
“Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. ‘How would you advise me to answer these people?’ he asked.”
- 1 Kings 12:8:
“But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.”
- Job 15:10:
“The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.”
- Job 32:4:
“Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.”
- 1 Timothy 5:17:
“The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.”
- Psalm 92:12:
“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;”
- Job 15:10:
“The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.”
- Psalm 71:18:
“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.”
- Psalm 90:10:
“Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”
- Isaiah 3:5:
“People will oppress each other—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honored.”
- Zechariah 8:4:
“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each of them with cane in hand because of their age.’”
- Isaiah 24:23:
“The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory.”
- Revelation 4:10:
“the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:”
- Revelation 5:5:
“Then one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.’”