Proverbs 16:31

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.

but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.