Top 15 Bible Verses About Retirement

Update on April 19, 2020 by Pastor Jack Wellman

The Bible isn’t very specific when it comes to retirement except for one reference in Numbers 8: 23-26 but it does offer us some wisdom for when we get older. Here are our top 15 Bible verses about retirement!

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

- Luke 14:28

Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.

- Nehemiah 5:19

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting. And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more.

- Numbers 8:23-25

And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home.

- Luke 1:23

And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

- 2 Samuel 7:28

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.

- Psalm 37:25-26

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

- Psalm 92:14-15

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

- Proverbs 13:22

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

- Hebrews 6:10

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

- Acts 20:24

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?

- Hebrews 13:5-6

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

- 1 Timothy 5:8