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2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 242 helpful votes
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 ESV / 204 helpful votes
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.
Psalm 71:18 ESV / 194 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 71:9 ESV / 180 helpful votes
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 177 helpful votes
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
Job 12:12 ESV / 152 helpful votes
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 143 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.
Titus 2:3 ESV / 113 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
Psalm 92:12-15 ESV / 111 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, to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 109 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.
Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 90 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,
Isaiah 46:3-4 ESV / 85 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.
Psalm 37:25 ESV / 85 helpful votes
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 82 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.
Psalm 92:14 ESV / 82 helpful votes
They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,
Genesis 6:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
Psalm 103:5 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
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.
Job 32:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes
I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— …
Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
Psalm 73:26 ESV / 64 helpful votes
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 55 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.
Psalm 90:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes
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.
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Joel 2:28 ESV / 53 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.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
Psalm 90:12 ESV / 50 helpful votes
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Psalm 91:16 ESV / 48 helpful votes
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 47 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.
Job 5:26 ESV / 47 helpful votes
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
Genesis 25:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
1 Chronicles 29:28 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.
Philemon 1:9 ESV / 44 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—
Psalm 71:8-9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 44 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.
Titus 2:2-3 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,
Psalm 71:18-19 ESV / 37 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. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?
Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Job 12:20 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 35 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 Kings 3:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Ruth 4:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes
He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
Genesis 24:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
1 Kings 12:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
Genesis 15:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
James 4:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
Luke 2:36-38 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
Psalm 143:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— …
Joshua 14:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Luke 1:36 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 28 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.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 27 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 1:24 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
Ecclesiastes 12:1-3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,
Job 42:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And Job died, an old man, and full of days.
Genesis 25:7-8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years. Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Job 32:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.
Proverbs 10:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
Psalm 71:17-18 ESV / 25 helpful votes
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. 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.
Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
Titus 2:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
Luke 2:37 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 23 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.
Isaiah 38:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Ecclesiastes 5:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. …
Psalm 90:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
Psalm 71:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
Psalm 71:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. …
Psalm 39:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Job 32:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes
You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
Exodus 7:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
John 3:16 ESV / 22 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.
Psalm 103:1-5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Job 11:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
Deuteronomy 33:25 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.
Psalm 119:100 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.
1 Kings 12:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
James 4:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Proverbs 12:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.
Leviticus 19:1-37 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God. “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. …
Genesis 47:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
John 3:16-17 ESV / 19 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.
Genesis 37:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
Isaiah 47:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
Lamentations 5:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
Ecclesiastes 2:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,
Luke 1:37 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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