Bible Verses About Growing Old
What the Bible says about growing old. 10 passages, word for word.
Isaiah 46:4
Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
KJVAnd even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Psalms 71:9
Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
KJVCast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Psalms 71:17–18
17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds. 18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
KJV17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalms 92:12–15
12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. 14In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain, 15to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”
KJV12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 15To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
KJVThe hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
KJVSo teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
KJVFor which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Psalms 37:25
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
KJVI have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Job 12:12
Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
KJVWith the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
KJVMy flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.