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What does Aslan International Ministry say about Becoming Weak

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Becoming Weak

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. …

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 18 helpful votes
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. …

Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 9:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

Romans 14:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

Romans 4:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.

Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, …

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Romans 15:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 4:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

Habakkuk 3:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 22:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But you, O Lord, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid!

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

Romans 14:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Romans 4:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Romans 4:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Romans 3:1-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) …

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Ephesians 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Galatians 3:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

Romans 10:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Romans 14:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

John 16:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 14:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Mark 12:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Zechariah 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 118:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Psalm 28:7-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.

Psalm 18:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Exodus 15:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …

Romans 8:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Romans 4:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,

John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Luke 19:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.

1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ESV / 5 helpful votes
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. …

2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

James 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”

James 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Philemon 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.

2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …

Colossians 1:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 11:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

1 Corinthians 15:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—

1 Corinthians 10:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And all ate the same spiritual food,

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

1 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Aging

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Aging

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 242 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 204 helpful votes
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 194 helpful votes
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 180 helpful votes
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 177 helpful votes
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Job 12:12 ESV / 152 helpful votes
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 143 helpful votes
“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Titus 2:3 ESV / 113 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Psalm 92:12-15 ESV / 111 helpful votes
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 90 helpful votes
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Isaiah 46:3-4 ESV / 85 helpful votes
“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 85 helpful votes
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 82 helpful votes
They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

Psalm 103:5 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Job 32:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes
I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— …

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 64 helpful votes
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 55 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Joel 2:28 ESV / 53 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 50 helpful votes
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Psalm 91:16 ESV / 48 helpful votes
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Job 5:26 ESV / 47 helpful votes
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

Genesis 25:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

1 Chronicles 29:28 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

Psalm 71:8-9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Titus 2:2-3 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

Psalm 71:18-19 ESV / 37 helpful votes
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Job 12:20 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

1 Kings 3:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Ruth 4:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes
He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Genesis 24:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …

1 Kings 12:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Genesis 15:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

James 4:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

Luke 2:36-38 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Psalm 143:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— …

Joshua 14:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Luke 1:36 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Ecclesiastes 12:1-3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,

Job 42:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

Genesis 25:7-8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years. Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Job 32:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

Proverbs 10:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Psalm 71:17-18 ESV / 25 helpful votes
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,

Titus 2:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

Luke 2:37 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 38:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 5:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. …

Psalm 90:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:

Psalm 71:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

Psalm 71:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. …

Psalm 39:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Job 32:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes
You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Exodus 7:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

John 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 103:1-5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Job 11:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

Deuteronomy 33:25 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.

Psalm 119:100 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

1 Kings 12:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

James 4:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Proverbs 12:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.

Leviticus 19:1-37 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God. “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. …

Genesis 47:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Genesis 37:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.

Isaiah 47:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Lamentations 5:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Luke 1:37 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.