Bible verses about "grandparents" | MKJV

⁶ And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷ keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the sons, and on the sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.

²² A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not grow weak nor weary? There is no searching of His understanding. ²⁹ He gives power to the weary; and to him with no vigor; He increases strength. ³⁰ Even the young shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; ³¹ but those who wait on Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

²⁵ I have been young, and am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread.

¹² So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flowering; ¹⁵ to show that Jehovah is upright; He is my rock, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

⁵ taking recollection of the unfeigned faith that is in you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice. And I am persuaded that it is in you also.

¹⁷ But the mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness is to sons of sons;

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

⁴ even to old age I am He; and to gray hairs I will bear you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

⁹ Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul carefully, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. But teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons.

¹ But you speak the things which become sound doctrine: ² aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience. ³ Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good; ⁴ that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.

⁴ One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.

³¹ The gray head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

⁶ Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.