What Does the Bible Say About Taking Care Of Elders?

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 170 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 23:22 ESV / 145 helpful votes

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

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 145 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 Peter 5:5 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 124 helpful votes

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

Luke 2:36-38 ESV / 108 helpful votes

And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 108 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 20:29 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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

Job 12:12 ESV / 104 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 96 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.

Matthew 15:4-6 ESV / 92 helpful votes

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

Titus 2:2-3 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 5:1-8 ESV / 72 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. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

1 Timothy 5:1-4 ESV / 64 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. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Mark 7:10-12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)— then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

John 19:26-27 ESV / 20 helpful votes

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

1 Timothy 5:3-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach. ...

1 Timothy 5:3-4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 5:1-3 ESV / 18 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. Honor widows who are truly widows.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 12 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.

Luke 1:50 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.

Genesis 47:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 John 2:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

James 1:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

1 Timothy 5:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.

Ephesians 6:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 8 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 John 4:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Luke 2:51 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Luke 2:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Luke 2:27-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, ...

Mark 7:10-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)— then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

1 Kings 2:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.

1 Kings 2:1-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn, that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

42 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Elders

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 170 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 145 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 145 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 133 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 2:36-38 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 12:12 ESV / 104 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 96 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:4-6 ESV / 92 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:2-3 ESV / 88 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 88 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:1-8 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:1-4 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 7:10-12 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 19:26-27 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:3-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 47:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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