Bible verses about "grandparents" | Thomson

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the God compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷ keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children s children to the third and fourth generation.

²² A cheerful heart promoteth health; but the bones of a heart wounded man are dried up.

²⁸ Hast thou then not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, the God who fitted up the ends of the earth, cannot hunger, nor can he be weary; nor can his under standing be searched out. ²⁹ He it is who giveth strength to the hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow. ³⁰ For youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen warriors will become strengthless; ³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

²⁵ I have been young and am now old, yet I have never seen the righteous utterly forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

¹² so to number them. Thus make known thy right hand; and them whose hearts are instructed in wisdom.

¹⁴ In a vigorous old age they shall still multiply; and continue prosperous; ¹⁵ that they may declare that the Lord my God is righteous; and that in him there is no injustice.

⁵ recollecting that unfeigned belief in thee, which dwelt first in thy grand mother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in thee also:

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from age to age over them who fear him: and his saving goodness over children's children,

²² A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children; but the wealth of the wicked is treasured up for the righteous.

⁴ I am the self existent, even till you grow old, I am, I sustain you: I made you and I will bear with you; I will lift you up and I will save you.

⁹ Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. Forget not all the things which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; that thou mayst impress upon thy children, and thy childrens' children,

¹ But as for thee speak thou what is consistent with sound doctrine ² that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in their belief, their love, their patience; ³ that aged women, in like manner, be in behaviour as becometh saints, not addicted to slander, not enslaved to wine, good instructors, that they may ⁴ teach the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ to be modest, chaste, attentive to domestic affairs, good, submissive to their husbands; that the word of God may not be ill spoken of.

⁴ Let generation after generation praise thy works, and proclaim thy mighty power:

³¹ Old age is a crown of glory, when found in the ways of righteousness.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men: and the boast of children, is their fathers. Every ornament of wealth belongeth to the faithful; but to the unfaithful, not a farthing.