46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

Like a child whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

They ask their mothers, "Is there anything to eat or drink?" They faint in the streets of the city like wounded men. Their life ebbs away while they lie on their mother's bosom.

even though as apostles of the Messiah we might have made such demands. Instead, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother tenderly caring for her own children.

Like a shepherd, he tends his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them close to his heart, and gently leads the mother sheep."

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

It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother's womb.

even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or have no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these mothers may forget; But as for me, I'll never forget you!

Let your father and mother rejoice; make the one who gave birth to you happy.

"Oh, yes! Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens will be your nursing mothers. They will bow to you with their faces to the ground, and lick the dust from your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.

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

Some people curse their fathers and won't bless their mothers.

The rod and rebuke bestow wisdom, but an undisciplined child brings shame to his mother.

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

Greet Rufus, the one chosen by the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.

"Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.

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

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her consoling breasts, and so that you may drink deeply and take delight from her glorious bosom."

Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons. She bowed down in front of him to ask him for a favor.

Deliver me from my brother Esau's control, because I'm terrified of him, and I'm afraid that he's coming to attack me, the mothers, and their children.

The eye that mocks a father and looks with a disobedient attitude at a mother the valley ravens will pluck it out; and vultures will eat it.

For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters who are born in this place, about their mothers who give birth to them, and about their fathers who father them in this land:

But he answered those people, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear a message from God and heed it."

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

He makes the barren woman among her household a happy mother of joyful children. Hallelujah!

With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children they become their food when my beloved people were destroyed.

It's better to meet a mother bear who has lost her cubs than a fool in his stupidity.

Yet, you are the one who took me from the womb, and kept me safe on my mother's breasts.

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

I'm one of the peaceful and faithful citizens of Israel. You're trying to destroy a city that's a mother in Israel. Why are you devouring the heritage of the LORD?"

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

Look, I'm bringing them from the northern region, and I'll gather them from the farthest parts of the earth. among them will be the blind and the lame, together with the pregnant woman and the woman in labor. A large group will return here.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.

who will not receive a hundred times as much here in this world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, along with persecution as well as eternal life in the age to come.