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Growing older gracefully
Growing older is a gift with its own unique joys and challenges. Scripture honors those with gray hair and promises that the righteous will flourish even in old age. God pledges to carry us from birth to gray hairs. These verses provide encouragement for the later seasons of life and remind us that our best days in Christ are never behind us.
"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."Read full explanation
"They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;"Read full explanation
"The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness."Read full explanation
"Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth."Read full explanation
"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."Read full explanation
"That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience."Read full explanation
"Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD."Read full explanation
"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."Read full explanation
"Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's."Read full explanation
"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."Read full explanation
"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;"Read full explanation
"The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head."Read full explanation
"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."Read full explanation
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."Read full explanation