34 Bible Verses About Honoring Elders

On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord;

And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.

And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.

And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

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.

But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord, that he did for Israel.

And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

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