Bible Verses About Aging
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for aging, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,092 votes, led by 2 Corinthians 4:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Aging
2 Corinthians 4:16284 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Proverbs 20:29233 votes
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Psalms 71:18226 votes
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalms 71:9203 votes
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Proverbs 16:31200 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Job 12:12190 votes
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Leviticus 19:32168 votes
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Isaiah 46:4136 votes
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Titus 2:3132 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Psalms 92:12-15131 votes
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms 92:12-14113 votes
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms 37:25102 votes
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
1 Timothy 5:8102 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Proverbs 17:6100 votes
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Isaiah 46:3-499 votes
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Psalms 103:597 votes
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalms 92:1496 votes
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Genesis 6:395 votes
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Job 32:792 votes
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Proverbs 23:2289 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Deuteronomy 34:786 votes
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-786 votes
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Isaiah 40:3181 votes
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Psalms 73:2680 votes
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 90:1071 votes
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
What does the Bible say about aging?
Readers most often cite 2 Corinthians 4:16 on the subject of aging. Across 6,092 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 20:29, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 71:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.