Bible Verses About Taking Care of Elderly Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking care of elderly parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,192 votes, led by 1 Timothy 5:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Taking Care of Elderly Parents
1 Timothy 5:4214 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.
1 Timothy 5:8200 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.
Exodus 20:12175 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Leviticus 19:32142 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.
Proverbs 23:22139 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Matthew 15:4-6135 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Ephesians 6:2-3120 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Proverbs 16:31110 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Mark 7:10-12107 votes
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
1 John 3:17-1895 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
John 19:26-2792 votes
When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
Proverbs 20:2973 votes
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Luke 2:5172 votes
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Psalms 71:941 votes
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
1 Peter 5:540 votes
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Isaiah 46:439 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.
1 Timothy 5:1630 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.
Genesis 47:1229 votes
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
Luke 7:12-1529 votes
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
2 Timothy 3:1-229 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Ephesians 6:1-327 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 17:626 votes
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 19:2622 votes
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
James 1:2718 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.
Proverbs 30:1717 votes
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
What does the Bible say about taking care of elderly parents?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:4 on the subject of taking care of elderly parents. Across 2,192 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:8, 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.