7 Bible Verses About Age Discrimination (NIV)

¹² Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.

⁵ Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

⁷ But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.

²² Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

⁸ Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

¹⁴ "What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous? ¹⁵ If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, ¹⁶ how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water! ¹⁷ "Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen, ¹⁸ what wise men have declared, hiding nothing received from their fathers ¹⁹ (to whom alone the land was given when no alien passed among them): ²⁰ All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless through all the years stored up for him. ²¹ Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him. ²² He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword. ²³ He wanders about-food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand. ²⁴ Distress and anguish fill him with terror; they overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack, ²⁵ because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty, ²⁶ defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.

² When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim.