6 Bible Verses about Caring For The Elderly

and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

"'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and did not dare show you my opinion. I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, towards one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."