Bible Verses About Caring for Elderly Parents

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.

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.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

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.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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:

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

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:

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

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.

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.

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.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.