I was raised to respect my parents and elders. To say “Yes Sir” and “Yes Ma’am”. I carried that with me through out life and when my Parents grew older and were home bound I took care of them. It breaks my heart to see so many young people disobeying their parents, grandparents or the elderly in general. It makes me mad to see on the news where someone has shoved an elderly person down, beaten them up or worse killed them. As I studied 1 Timothy this morning and this verse,

1 Timothy 5:1-2 King James Version

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

² The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

It stood out to me in respecting those that are older.

2 Kings 2:23-24 King James Version

²³ And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

²⁴ And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

The Bible tells us how we are to honor our elderly.

Proverbs 19:20 – Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Hebrews 13:17 – Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

1 Peter 5:5 – Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Ephesians 6:1 – Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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.

Colossians 3:20 – Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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.


Proverbs 1:8 – My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 30:17 – The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Exodus 21:17 – And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Ephesians 6:4 – And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6 – Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Deuteronomy 21:18 – If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Hebrews 13:17 – Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Proverbs 13:24 – He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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.

Leviticus 19:3 – Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Proverbs 29:15 – The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.