46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

And woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

But woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

As a man child whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Lamed They said to their mothers, Where is the wheat and the wine? fainting as the dead in the streets of the city, pouring out their souls into their mothers' bosom.

But we were gentle among you, as a mother feeding and caring for her children,

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young.

the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.

For thou hast possessed my kidneys: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if she continues in faith and charity and sanctification and modesty.

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

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their princesses thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for those that wait for me shall not be ashamed.

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her daughter- in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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

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

For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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

And brother shall deliver up brother unto death, and the father the child, and children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

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

My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.

Now the brother shall deliver the brother unto death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents and shall kill them.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bare and the breasts which never gave suck.

That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the splendour of her glory.

As thou dost not know what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou dost not know the works of God who makes all.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshipping him and desiring a certain thing of him.

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him lest he come and smite me and the mother with the children.

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises the teaching of his mother, the ravens shall pluck it out of the river, and the young eagles shall eat it.

For thus hath the LORD said concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that would be born in this place and concerning their mothers that would bare them and concerning their fathers that would beget them in this land

And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.

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

as newborn babes, desire the rational milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby in health;

He makes the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of sons. Halelu-JAH.

Jod The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou hast made me wait upon thee since I was upon my mother's breasts.

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

I am one of those that are peaceable and faithful in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel; why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

Behold, I turn them from the land of the north wind and gather them from the coasts of the earth; there shall be blind and lame among them, and women with child and those that travail with child together; a great company shall return there.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

who shall not receive one hundredfold now in this time: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.