Bible Verses About Caring for Elderly Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for caring for elderly parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 13,689 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 Elderly Parents
1 Timothy 5:8906 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.
1 Timothy 5:4709 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.
Exodus 20:12637 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Leviticus 19:32587 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.
Deuteronomy 5:16470 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.
1 Timothy 5:1398 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Proverbs 23:22376 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
James 1:27352 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Ephesians 6:2-3306 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Ephesians 6:1304 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Mark 7:9-13298 votes
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Ephesians 6:4298 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Revelation 1:1273 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Psalms 71:9242 votes
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
John 19:25-27242 votes
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
Isaiah 46:3-4229 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:
Proverbs 20:20217 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Ephesians 6:2214 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
1 Timothy 5:1-2214 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
2 Timothy 3:2195 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
1 Corinthians 13:4180 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Timothy 5:16171 votes
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
Mark 7:10-13168 votes
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Isaiah 46:4166 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.
John 3:16-17155 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
What does the Bible say about caring for elderly parents?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:8 on the subject of caring for elderly parents. Across 13,689 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:4, Exodus 20:12, Leviticus 19:32. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.