46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!

But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.

But woe to those with babe in womb, and to those who give suck in those days!

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

They say to their mothers, Where are grain and wine? In their fainting they are like the wounded in the streets of the city, in their pouring out their lives to their mothers' bosom.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse warmly cherishes 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 with young.

older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity.

For You have possessed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.

But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.

Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.

And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow to you, faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Jehovah; by whom they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.

And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause some of you to be put to death.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of 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 rebuke give wisdom, but a boy sent off causes shame to his mother.

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

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

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

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

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;

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

And a brother will betray a brother to death, and a father his son. And children will rise up against their parents and will cause them to be put to death.

Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your 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 bore, and the breasts which did not suckle.

that you may suck and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may milk out and be delighted with the fullness of her glory.

As you do not know what is the way of the spirit, as how the bones grow in the pregnant woman's womb; even so you do not know the works of God who makes all.

Then the mother of Zebedee's children came to Him with her sons, worshiping and desiring a certain thing from Him.

Deliver me, I pray You, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he come and strike me, from mother to 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 so says Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land:

And He answered and said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it.

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

desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;

He causes the barren to dwell in the house as a joyful mother of sons. Praise Jehovah!

The hands of the pitying women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

For You are He who took Me out of the womb, causing Me to trust while on My mother's breasts.

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

I am peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

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 corners of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; a great company shall return there.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life.