20 Bible Verses about Motherhood

Alas for women who are expectant mothers and those who have nursing babies in those days!

Alas for the women who are pregnant and those who have nursing babies in those days! For there will be great misery in the land and wrath on this people.

Alas for the women who are expectant mothers and those who have nursing babies, in those days!

Instead we were little children among you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, with perfect purity.

But women will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to live in faith, love, and purity, blended with good sense.

Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

Father will be against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

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

Remember me to Rufus, that choicest Christian, and to his mother, who has been a mother to me too.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents and have them put to death.

For a time is coming when people will say, 'Happy are the women who are childless, and the women who have never borne and nursed babies!'

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to Him with her sons, kneeling to Him and asking a favor of Him.

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.

and like new-born babies thirst for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to final salvation,

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.

who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.