Bible Verses About Caring for Aging Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for caring for aging parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,223 votes, led by 1 Timothy 5:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Caring for Aging Parents
1 Timothy 5:8201 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 23:22155 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
1 Timothy 5:4126 votes
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Deuteronomy 5:16110 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 20:12104 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 20:2075 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Mark 7:10-1366 votes
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Leviticus 20:964 votes
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
1 Timothy 5:139 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Proverbs 23:2538 votes
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
John 19:25-2737 votes
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
Leviticus 19:3234 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 46:3-431 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:
Ephesians 6:1-325 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Psalms 109:822 votes
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Matthew 15:4-619 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Ruth 4:1516 votes
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Matthew 20:1615 votes
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
2 Timothy 3:215 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Proverbs 6:2011 votes
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
John 3:1-3610 votes
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Ephesians 6:110 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
What does the Bible say about caring for aging parents?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:8 on the subject of caring for aging parents. Across 1,223 votes, 22 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 23:22, 1 Timothy 5:4, Deuteronomy 5:16. This page lists all 22 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.