46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

Woe shall be in those days to them that are with child, and to them that give suck.

But woe be to them that be with child, and to them that give suck in those days, for there shall be great trouble in the land: and wrath over all this people.

But woe is then to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days.

For like as a child is comforted of his mother, so shall I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

{Lamed} Even when they spake to their mothers, "Where is meat and drink?" For while they so said, they fell down in the streets of the city, like as they had been wounded, and some died in their mothers' bosom.

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

He shall feed his flock like a herdsman. He shall gather the lambs together with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall kindly entreat those that bear young.

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

For my reins are thine, thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

Notwithstanding, through bearing of children they shall be saved, so they continue in faith, love, and holiness with discretion.

Doth a wife forget the child of her womb, and the son who she hath born? And though she do forget, yet will not I forget thee.

So shall thy father be glad, and thy mother that bare thee, shall rejoice.

For kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and Queens shall be thy nursing mothers. They shall fall before thee with their faces flat upon the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet: that thou mayest know, how that I am the LORD. And who so putteth his trust in me, shall not be confounded.

Yea, and ye shall be betrayed of your fathers and mothers, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and lovers. And some of you shall they put to death.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness 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."

He that bringeth up an evil report upon the generation of his father and mother, is not worthy to be commended.

The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.

For I am 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.

The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall arise against their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death,

A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

Yea, and the brother shall deliver the brother to death. And the father the son, and the children shall rise against their fathers and mothers, and shall put them to death.

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

For behold, the days will come, when men shall say, 'Happy are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'

For ye shall suck comfort out of her breasts, and be satisfied. Ye shall taste, and have delight in the plenteousness of her power.

Now, like as thou knowest not the way of the wind, nor how the bones are filled in a mother's womb: Even so thou knowest not the works of God, which is the workmaster of all.

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

Deliver me from the hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother with the children.

Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.

For of the children that are born in this place, of their mothers that have borne them, and of their fathers that have begotten them in this land, thus sayeth the LORD:

He answered, and said unto them, "My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it."

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

and as newborn babes desire that reasonable milk which is without corruption, that ye may be grown therein.

Which maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

{Yod} The women, which of nature are pitiful, have sodden their own children with their hands that they might be their meat, in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.

It were better to come against a she Bear robbed of her whelps, than against a fool in his foolishness.

But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother's breasts.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

Abel is one of the quietest and faithfullest cities that are in Israel. And thou goest about to destroy a city that is as a mother in Israel. Why devourest thou the inheritance of the LORD?"

An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.

Behold, I will bring them again from out of the north land, and gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and lame that are among them, with the women that be great with child, and such as be also delivered: and the company of them that come again, shall be great.

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

which shall not receive a hundred fold now in this life, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers and children, and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.