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Caring For Elderly Parents
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 321 helpful votes
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.
1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 210 helpful votes
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 197 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 138 helpful votes
“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.
Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 119 helpful votes
“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 87 helpful votes
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,
James 1:27 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Mark 7:9-13 ESV / 76 helpful votes
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)— then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
1 Timothy 5:16 ESV / 67 helpful votes
If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.
John 19:25-27 ESV / 64 helpful votes
But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 60 helpful votes
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 54 helpful votes
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.
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Honor widows who are truly widows.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Psalm 71:9 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Revelation 21:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
James 2:14-17 ESV / 35 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Romans 2:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
1 Timothy 5:3-4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Isaiah 46:3-4 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“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.
1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
2 Corinthians 1:4-11 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. …
Matthew 15:4-6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Job 12:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 25 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Romans 13:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Mark 7:10-13 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)— then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 19:26-27 ESV / 22 helpful votes
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
Psalm 109:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
May his days be few; may another take his office!
Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Proverbs 23:25 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
John 19:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
John 15:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Joel 2:28 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Matthew 25:40 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Matthew 25:34-40 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? …
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.
Psalm 118:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
Galatians 2:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Psalm 71:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
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 68:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Philemon 1:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
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,
Job 32:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’
Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
1 Peter 5:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
John 19:26 ESV / 14 helpful votes
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
James 2:26 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
1 Timothy 6:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
Acts 6:1-15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. …
John 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Mark 7:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? …
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Ephesians 2:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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