Caring for elderly parents

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• 1 Timothy 5:8

  But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

• 1 Timothy 5:4

  But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

• Exodus 20:12

  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

• Leviticus 19:32

  Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

• Deuteronomy 5:16

  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.

• 1 Timothy 5:1

  Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

• Proverbs 23:22

  Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

• James 1:27

  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

• Ephesians 6:1

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

• Ephesians 6:2–3

  Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

• Mark 7:9–13

  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. …

• Ephesians 6:4

  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• Psalms 71:9

  Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

• John 19:25–27

  Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

• Isaiah 46:3–4

  Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: 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.

• Proverbs 20:20

  Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

• Ephesians 6:2

  Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

• 1 Timothy 5:1–2

  Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

• 1 Timothy 5:16

  If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

• Mark 7:10–13

  For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; …

• Isaiah 46:4

  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.

• John 3:16–17

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

• Ephesians 6:1–3

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

• Leviticus 20:9

  For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

• Proverbs 23:25

  Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

• Psalms 109:8

  Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

• Hebrews 13:5

  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

• Proverbs 16:31

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

• Proverbs 22:6

  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

• Matthew 15:4–6

  For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

• Proverbs 20:29

  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

• John 19:26–27

  When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

• Matthew 7:12

  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

• Psalms 71:18

  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.

• Job 12:12

  With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

• Hebrews 13:16

  But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

• Colossians 3:20

  Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.