What are some Bible verses about aging?

July 2024 · 3 minute read

2 Corinthians 4:16

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Proverbs 20:29

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

Psalm 71:18

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Psalm 71:9

Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Job 12:12

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Leviticus 19:32

You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Titus 2:3

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Psalm 92:12-15

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 37:25

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

Isaiah 46:3-4

Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

1 Timothy 5:8

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Psalm 92:14

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Psalm 103:5

Who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Job 32:7

I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 90:10

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Special thanks to OpenBible.info for the data on the most well-known Bible verses.

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