Proverbs 20:29

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

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

So Job died, being old and full of days.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

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.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

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

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

Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;

Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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

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

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.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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

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.

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.

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

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 hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

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.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

In the lamp stand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

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

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

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

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

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

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

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

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

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.

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:

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

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

Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”

Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

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

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

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

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.