Bible Verses About Old Age
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for old age, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 11,829 votes, led by Proverbs 16:31. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Old Age
Proverbs 16:31583 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Isaiah 46:4565 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.
Job 12:12521 votes
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Psalms 92:14458 votes
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Psalms 71:18402 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 71:9352 votes
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Proverbs 20:29289 votes
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Leviticus 19:32280 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.
2 Corinthians 4:16258 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Isaiah 40:31244 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.
Proverbs 17:6227 votes
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Psalms 90:10226 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.
Psalms 37:25212 votes
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Job 5:26189 votes
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Titus 2:2185 votes
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Job 32:7167 votes
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Titus 2:3165 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;
Genesis 6:3157 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.
Proverbs 23:22154 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Deuteronomy 34:7150 votes
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Genesis 15:15145 votes
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Psalms 91:16139 votes
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Isaiah 40:29135 votes
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Ruth 4:15133 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.
Job 11:17133 votes
And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
What does the Bible say about old age?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 16:31 on the subject of old age. Across 11,829 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 46:4, Job 12:12, Psalms 92:14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.