37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

They will be at war, the father against his son, and the son against his father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:

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

Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

Then he said to the disciple, There is your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his house.

Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple who was dear to him, he said to his mother, Mother, there is your son!

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with her.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment: