World’s Best 18 Bible Verses About Aging

Update on by Pastor Jack Wellman

The Lord promises His continued love and concern for the aging. Old age is a gift and blessing from the Lord therefore we should never be scared of aging.   When you live by the Word of God then aging brings wisdom that is able to help and guide others that are in need.

Here are our World’s Best 18 Bible Verses about Aging! Be encouraged and inspired by these Bible verses!

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With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
- Psalm 91:16
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Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 29:28
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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 90:10
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You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
- Job 5:26
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Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:8
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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.
- Deuteronomy 32:7
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Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
- Psalm 71:9
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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 71:18
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I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’
- Job 32:7
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Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 23:22
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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.
- Titus 2:2-3
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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 92:14-15
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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.
- Isaiah 46:4
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Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
- Proverbs 16:31
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“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.
- Leviticus 19:32
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Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. “With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
- Job 12:12-13
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Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children.
- Titus 2:3-4
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Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
- Proverbs 17:6
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Total Quotes Found: 18

5 Stories From The Bible About Aging

Here are 5 stories from the Bible that relate to aging.

Day by Day

Many years take their toll.  It gets harder and harder to do things that used to be relatively easy.  Our bodies wear out, but the Apostle Paul doesn’t want us to lose heart over this.  He says, “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16).  It’s the “inner self” that’s going into eternity anyway.  It’s what’s inside that really counts in the end.

Even to Old Age

God does not forsake the old and aged when they are no longer productive members of society.  Through no fault of their own, the aged often become disabled and are no longer able to do what they used to do, but God’s love doesn’t waver over the decades.  The psalmist wrote, “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 71:18).

The Gray Hair

Studies have shown that stress can cause our hair to turn gray, and I believe it, but another reason is it’s just the natural process of human aging.  When we get older, we start having changes in our bodies…and not good ones, but the Word of God sees the value in the aged.  Solomon wrote, “The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair” (Proverbs 20:29).

Never Forsakes Us

Many in the nursing homes I speak with feel that God’s forsaken them and left them in their old age.  They no longer feel useful to God, but I remind them that they can pray and prayer is critical. We can’t do much of anything without praying about everything.  The psalmist might have been anxious about this as he wrote, “Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent” (Psalm 71:9), but deep in his heart, he must have known that God would never leave him or forsake him (Deuteronomy 31:6; Joshua 1: Hebrews 13:5).

Rise in Respect

I was taught to rise from your chair when a lady entered the room or an elderly person came in.  That’s how we show respect to women and to the aged.  In fact, that’s an Old Testament Law.  Scripture say, “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” (Leviticus 19:32).  To not do so angers God because His will is for us to treat others with dignity and respect and rise before the “face of an old man” or woman.

The Book of Job is considered part of the wisdom literature of the Bible, and we can see that where it’s said that “Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days” (Job 12:12). When I was young, I thought I knew it all…but only later, as an elder, I see that I’ve got much to learn and that “Wisdom is with the aged” and not the young.

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