What Does the Bible Say About Old Age And Health?

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 15 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.

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 12 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 20:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Job 12:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 6 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,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 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.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Psalm 91:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 5 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.

Joel 2:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Isaiah 46:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; 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.

Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 4 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.

1 Chronicles 29:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Joshua 14:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 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.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Mark 5:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 9:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

1 Kings 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Genesis 25:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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,

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Colossians 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Acts 17:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

John 11:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Luke 8:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

Ecclesiastes 12:1-3 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,

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”;

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,

Proverbs 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Psalm 148:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Job 42:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

Job 32:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

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.

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 30:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Genesis 47:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

Genesis 15:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

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.”

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

56 Bible Verses about Old Age And Health

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 12:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 91:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joel 2:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 46:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 29:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 14:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 5:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 9:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 25:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 11:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 8:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 148:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 42:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 32:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 47:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 15:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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