Leviticus 19:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² “You shall rise before the aged and defer to the old, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² You shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³² You must rise in the presence of an old person and respect the elderly. You must fear your God; I am the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² 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 19:32 Cross References

Genesis 31:35

And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods.

Genesis 48:12

Then Joseph removed them from his father’s knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

1 Kings 2:19

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. The king rose to meet her and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne and had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.

2 Kings 17:36

but you shall worship the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.

Job 32:4

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

Job 32:6

Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of youths is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is their gray hair.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Isaiah 3:5

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder and the base to the honorable.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Leviticus 19:14

You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Romans 13:7

Pay to all what is due them: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

1 Timothy 5:1

Do not speak harshly to an older man, but speak to him as to a father, to younger men as brothers,

1 Peter 2:17

Honor everyone. Love the family of believers. Fear God. Honor the emperor.