Top 25 Bible Verses About Taking Care Of The Elderly (NIV)

⁸ If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

³⁵ In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

¹ Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,

³² "'Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.

⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

⁹ Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.

²⁷ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

² "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise--

⁴ Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

¹⁷ The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

³ Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need. ⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

³¹ Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life.

⁴ For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.' ⁵ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,' ⁶ he is not to 'honor his father 'with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

¹⁶ If any woman who is a believer has widows in her family, she should help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.

²² Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

¹² Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

¹ Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, ² older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

¹⁶ And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

⁵ Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

⁹ The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

¹ To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder, a witness of Christ's sufferings and one who also will share in the glory to be revealed:

³ Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.

⁶ Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.