Leviticus 19:32
Good News Translation
"Show respect for old people and honor them. Reverently obey me; I am the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall rise before the aged, and defer to the old; and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
I command you to show respect for older people and to obey me with fear and trembling.

New American Bible
Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the old, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:14 Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

1 Kings 2:19 Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias: and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his throne: and a throne was set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand.

Job 32:4,6 So Eliu waited while Job was speaking because they were his elders that were speaking. . . .

Proverbs 16:31 Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Proverbs 20:29 The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs.

Isaiah 3:5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Lamentations 5:12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

1 Timothy 5:1 An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men, as brethren:

1 Peter 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Context
Keep My Decrees
31Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. 32Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.33If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid hin:…
Cross References
1 Timothy 5:1
An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men, as brethren:

Genesis 31:35
She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.

2 Kings 17:36
But the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.

Proverbs 23:22
Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Lamentations 5:12
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

Leviticus 19:31
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