19 Bible Verses about The Elderly

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching.

Make it a rule not to consider a charge preferred against an elder, unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, with perfect purity.

the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and they throw their crowns in front of the throne, and say:

Is anyone sick among you? He should call in the elders of the church, and they should pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord,

Never reprove an older man, but always appeal to him as a father. Treat younger men like brothers,

Stop neglecting the gift you received, which was given you through prophetic utterance when the elders laid their hands upon you.

On the next day we went with Paul to see James, and all the elders of the church came too.

They helped them select elders in each church, and after praying and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Those who are guilty reprove in public, so that others may be warned.

But if he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two others, so as to have every word confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, report it to the church.

each elder must be above reproach, have only one wife, and his children must not be liable to the charge of profligacy or disobedience.

Then the high priests and the elders of the people met in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

So, as a joint-elder with them, a witness of the suffering borne by Christ, and a sharer of the glory that is to be uncovered, I beg the elders among you,

Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, "Amen! Praise the Lord!"

Around the throne there were twenty-four thrones, with twenty-four elders seated on them, clothed in white and with crowns of gold on their heads.

be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though you had to but of your own free will, not from the motive of personal profit but freely,