Bible verses about "grandparents" | EJ2000

⁶ And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth, ⁷ keeping mercy for thousands, letting go of iniquity and rebellion and sin; and by no means will I absolve the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons’ sons, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

²² ¶ A joyful heart shall do good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

²⁸ Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the God of the age is the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth? He does not faint, nor is he weary; and there is no one that can attain to his intelligence. ²⁹ He gives power to the faint; and to those that have no might he increases strength. ³⁰ The young men faint and are weary; the children stumble and fall; ³¹ but those that wait for the LORD shall have new strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

¹² ¶ Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

²⁵ Nun I have been young and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be vigorous and flourishing ¹⁵ to show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

⁵ when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those that fear him, and his righteousness unto the children’s children,

²² ¶ A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children’s children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

⁴ And even to your old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you; I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will deliver you.

⁹ Therefore, take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but teach them to thy sons and thy sons’ sons.

¹ ¶ But speak thou the things which are expedient unto sound doctrine, ² that the aged men be temperate, venerable, prudent, sound in faith, in charity, in tolerance. ³ The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty; ⁴ that they may teach the young women to be prudent, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ to be temperate, chaste, good housekeepers, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed.

⁴ Daleth One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts.

³¹ ¶ Old age is a crown of glory if it is found in the way of righteousness.

⁶ ¶ Children’s children are the crown of old men, and the honour of the children are their fathers.