Bible Verses About Growing Older

Scripture honours old age: God promises to carry us to grey hairs, and our later years can still bear fruit.

  1. 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.
  2. 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,
  3. Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
  4. Even 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.
  5. Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
  6. For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
  7. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
  8. 2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. 3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
  9. So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
  10. I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
  11. You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the Lord.
  12. The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.