20 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But alas for women who are with child at that time or who have babies!

But alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies, for there will be great misery in the land and anger at this people.

Alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies!

We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

older women like mothers, younger ones like sisters, with absolute purity.

But they will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to have faith and to be loving and holy, and sensible as well.

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends and they will put some of you to death,

Father will be against son, and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

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

Remember me to Rufus, that eminent Christian, and to his mother, who has been a mother to me.

One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death.

Brother will give up brother to be put to death, and the father his child, and children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to him with her sons, bowing low, to ask a favor of him.

He answered, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and obey it!"

Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.