20 Bible Verses about Motherhood

And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!

"Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.

And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!

On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.

Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.

father against son and son against father; mother attacking daughter and daughter her mother, mother-in-law her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law her mother-in-law."

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

Greetings to Rufus, who is one of the Lord's chosen people; and to his mother, who has also been a mother to me.

Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

"Brother will betray brother to be killed, and fathers will betray children; and children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

For a time is coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the women who never bore children, and the breasts which have never given nourishment.'

Then the mother of the sons of Zabdi came to Him with her sons, and knelt before Him to make a request of Him.

"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.

but will receive a hundred times as much now in this present life--houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands--and persecution with them--and in the coming age the Life of the Ages.