46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

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

They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

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

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed."

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. 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 brings grief to his mother.

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

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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

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

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be 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 don't forsake your mother's teaching:

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory."

As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

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

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

For thus says Yahweh 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 became the father of them in this land:

But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.

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

I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?"

A foolish son brings 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 uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.