538 verses contain “old” (in the KJV: 399, in the BSB: 387) — showing 501–538
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Then the old man said, It is due unto him.
And he was eight and fifty years
old when he lost his sight, which was restored to him after eight years: and he gave
alms, and he increased in the fear of the Lord God, and praised him.
Wherefore now, my son, consider what
alms doeth, and how righteousness
doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years
old; and he buried him honourably.
Where he became
old with honour, and he buried his father and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father
Tobit’s.
And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundred and seven and twenty years old.
But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed
old in her husband’s house, being an hundred and five years
old, and made her
maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.
That they, who of
old and now also are
malicious, may in one day with violence go into the grave, and so ever
hereafter cause our affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.
But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an
unspotted life is
old age.
Thus the righteous that is dead shall
condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and
old age of the unrighteous.
If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of
old, and conjectureth
aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can
expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.
For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,
For in the old time also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world governed by thy hand escaped in a weak vessel, and left to all ages a seed of generation.
Look at the generations of
old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any
abide in his fear, and was
forsaken? or whom did he ever
despise, that called upon him?
My son, gather instruction from thy youth up: so shalt thou find wisdom till thine old age.
Dishonour not a man in his old age: for even some of us wax old.
Forsake not an
old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is
old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Error and darkness had their beginning together with sinners: and evil shall wax old with them that glory therein.
All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.
Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly
offended at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a
liar, and an
old adulterer that doateth.
O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honour.
Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.
The Lord gave strength also unto
Caleb, which remained with him unto his
old age: so that he entered upon the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an
heritage:
Then thought I upon thy mercy, O Lord, and upon thy acts of old, how thou deliverest such as wait for thee, and savest them out of the hands of the enemies.
How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art
waxen old in a strange country, that thou art
defiled with the dead,
For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced
old man, nor
pitied child.
So when they were put
asunder one from another, he called one of them, and said unto him, O thou that art
waxen old in wickedness, now thy sins which thou hast committed
aforetime are come to light.
Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the
dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in taking away the laws which had been of
old time;
Forasmuch as certain
pestilent men have
usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to
challenge it again, that I may restore it to the
old estate, and to that end have gathered a multitude of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of war;
The Jews’ ambassadors, our friends and confederates, came unto us to renew the old friendship and league, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:
But now I am old, and ye, by God’s mercy, are of a sufficient age: be ye instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be with you.
Thus there was killing of young and
old, making away of men, women, and children,
slaying of virgins and infants.
Not long after this the king sent an
old man of Athens to
compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God:
But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the
old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside,
besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful for him to use, and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king;
That in so doing he might be delivered from death, and for the old friendship with them find favour.
For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to
dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that
Eleazar, being
fourscore years
old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion;
And so they through mine
hypocrisy, and desire to live a little time and a moment longer, should be
deceived by me, and I get a
stain to mine
old age, and make it
abominable.