Bible Verses About Aging

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 by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

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

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.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

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.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

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.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

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

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

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

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,

Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.