46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you;
And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded man
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
On their mothers’ bosom.

But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.

Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,
In His arm He will gather the lambs
And carry them in His bosom;
He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.

But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

“Kings will be your guardians,
And their princesses your nurses.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth
And lick the dust of your feet;
And you will know that I am the Lord;
Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

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.”

There is a kind of man who curses his father
And does not bless his mother.

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

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

Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

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

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

“Others snatch the orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

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

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts,
That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom.”

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.

Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in this land:

But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

He makes the barren woman abide in the house
As a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord!

The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs,
Rather than a fool in his folly.

Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;
You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city, even a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?”

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

“Behold, I am bringing them from the north country,
And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together;
A great company, they will return here.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.