46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

And woe to those having in the womb, and to those giving suck, in those days!

And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck, in those days! for there shall be great necessity upon the land, and anger upon this people.

And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck in those days!

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

To their mothers will they say, Where the grain and wine? in their languishing as the wounded in the broad places of the city, in the pouring out of their soul into their mothers bosom.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

As a shepherd he will feed his flock: with his arm he will gather the lambs, and will lift up into his bosom, he will lead those coming up.

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb.

And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.

Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee.

Thy father shall rejoice, and thy mother, and she begetting thee shall exult.

And kings were thy supporters, and princesses thy nurses: their faces to the earth they shall worship to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah, that they shall not be ashamed waiting for me.

And ye shall also be delivered up by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and they shall put of you to death.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.

Father shall be divided 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.

A generation will curse its father, and will not bless its mother.

The rod and reproofs will give wisdom: and the youth being left shames his mother.

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

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

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child: and children shall rise up in revolt against parents, and kill them.

A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor.

And brother shall deliver brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and kill them.

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

For, behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never brought forth, and the breasts which gave not suck.

So that ye shall suck and be satisfied from the breast of her consolation; so that ye shall press out and be delighted from the brightness of her glory.

As thou wilt not know what the way of the spirit, as the bones in the womb of her being filled, so thou shalt not know the work of God who will make all.

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

Take me away now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he shall come and smite me, the mother upon the sons.

The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it

For thus said Jehovah concerning the sons, and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers bearing them, and concerning their fathers begetting them in this land:

And he having answered, said unto them, My mother and my brethren are they hearing the word of God, and doing it.

Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.

As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

Causing the sterile woman to dwell in the house, a mother of sons being glad. Praise ye Jah.

The hands of compassionate women boiled their children: they were for food to them in the breaking of the daughter of my people.

A bereaved bear meeting with a, man, and not a fool in his folly.

Thou causing me to break forth from the womb: causing me to trust upon my mother's breasts.

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

I peaceful of the faithful of Israel: thou seeking to kill a city and a mother in Israel: wherefore wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.

Behold me bringing them from the land of the north, and I gathered them from the thighs of the earth, with them the blind and the lame, her being Pregnant, and her bringing forth together: a great convocation shall turn back hither.

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.

Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.