15 Bible Verses about Attitude Towards Your Mother

My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not reject the teaching of your mother.

My son, be guided by your father’s [God-given] commandment (instruction)
And do not reject the teaching of your mother;

Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her who gave birth to you rejoice [in your wise and godly choices].

The proverbs of Solomon:

A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish [stubborn] son [who refuses to learn] is a grief to his mother.

A foolish son is a grief and anguish to his father
And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.

A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man despises his mother.

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

The rod and reproof (godly instruction) give wisdom,
But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.

I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;
I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

For the son dishonors the father and treats him contemptuously,
The daughter rises up [in hostility] against her mother,
The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
A man’s enemies are the men (members) of his own household.

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters, in all purity [being careful to maintain appropriate relationships].

Then He said to the disciple (John), “Look! [here is] your mother [protect and provide for her]!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own home.