Aging brings mixed attitudes in people. Some have fear and anxiety to leave this world as they are in their last phase of life. Many cannot accept their appearance like wrinkles, loss of health, and gray hair. Any emotion felt is a valid emotion. That is why we are so fortunate to have a book that can provide comfort in any type of situation or emotion, the Bible!
Here are some Bible verses about being in old age.
“Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.” Proverbs 16:31
Proverbs 16:31
Someone told me once that when someone lives by the word of God, they never have to be afraid of aging because each year they grow more righteous, and the righteous will live by faith (Habbakuk 2:4.)
The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair. (Proverbs 20:29)
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are widows indeed. (1 Timothy 5:1-3)
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance: and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children (Titus 2:2-4)
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed (1 Peter 5:1)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9)
I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. (Job 42:2)
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. (Proverbs 19:21 NIV)
But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. (Psalms 33:11)
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. (Psalm 92:12-13)
I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation. (Psalm 91:16)
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Revelation 21:3 ESV)
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. (1 Peter 5:10)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:12)
We are alive in Christ! So we will not die but live, and proclaim what he has done for us. (Psalm 118:17.)
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. (Psalm 46:1)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1)
We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
…who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love (Colossians 1:13)
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. You know where I go, and you know the way.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.” (John 14:1-7)
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. (Revelation 21:3)
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1:13)
Yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. (Galatians 2:16)