What other scriptures highlight the importance of wisdom from elders? Job 15:10 – “Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.” Job 12:12 – “Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.” Deuteronomy 32:7 – “Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will inform you.” Exodus 18:17-19 – “What you are doing is not good,” Moses’ father-in-law said to him… “Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you.” 1 Kings 12:6-8 – “Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime, asking, ‘How do you advise me to answer these people?’ … But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders given him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.” Proverbs 1:8-9 – “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.” Proverbs 13:20 – “He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.” Proverbs 16:31 – “Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.” Proverbs 20:29 – “The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.” Proverbs 23:22 – “Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.” Psalm 71:18 – “Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.” Titus 2:2-4 – “Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or enslaved to much wine, but they are to teach what is good, so that they may train the young women…” 1 Peter 5:5 – “In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’” Hebrews 13:7 – “Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.” Hebrews 13:17 – “Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account…” 2 Timothy 1:5 – “I recall your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you as well.” 2 Timothy 3:14-15 – “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you learned it. And from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures…” |