What Does the Bible Say About Not Old?

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 6 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.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 5 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.

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 5 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.

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Job 12:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 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.

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 3 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,

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Job 32:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 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,

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 2 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—

Titus 2:3 ESV / 2 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,

Romans 6:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 2 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”;

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 ESV / 2 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— ...

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Psalm 92:12-15 ESV / 2 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.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 2 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.

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 2 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.

Job 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

Nehemiah 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Ruth 4:15 ESV / 2 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.”

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 2 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.

Deuteronomy 29:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.

Deuteronomy 8:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

Numbers 14:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 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.

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

37 Bible Verses about Not Old

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 12:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Job 32:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 92:12-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nehemiah 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ruth 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 29:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 8:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 14:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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37 Bible Verses about Not Old

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 12:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Job 32:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 12:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Job 32:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 92:12-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nehemiah 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ruth 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 29:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 8:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 14:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes