44 Bible Verses about Motherhood

And woe to those who have in the womb and to those who suckle in those days.

But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.

But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days.

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

For thou formed my inward parts. Thou covered me in my mother's womb.

But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers. They shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet. And thou shall know that I am LORD, and those who wait for me s

And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A father will be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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

Salute Rufus the chosen in Lord, and his mother and mine.

And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

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

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

And brother will betray brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and will condemn them to death.

Because, behold, the days are coming, during which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the bellies that gave no birth, and the breasts that did not suckle.

that ye may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations, that ye may [get] milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

As thou know not what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [grow] in the womb of her who is with child, even so thou know not the work of God who does all.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshiping, and asking something from him.

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he comes and smites me, the mother with the sons.

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

For thus says LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

But having answered, he said to them, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

He makes the barren woman to keep house, a joyful mother of sons. Praise ye LORD.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in 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.

But thou are he who took me out of the womb. Thou made me trust upon my mother's breasts.

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

I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. Thou seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will thou swallow up the inheritance of LORD?

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

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the outermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind man and the lame man, the woman with child, and she who travails with child together. They shall ret

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

but he will receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands--with persecutions--and in the coming age, eternal life.