37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Thou art the daughter of thy mother that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

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

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

And this woman's child died in the night; because she had lain upon it.

Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's house. Jehovah deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead and with me.

For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

Then spoke the woman whose was the living child to the king, for her bowels yearned over her son, and she said, Ah, my lord! give her the living child, and in no wise put it to death. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine; divide it.

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

Then he says unto the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

And the king answered and said, Give this one the living child, and in no wise put it to death: she is its mother.

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.

A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

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

Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord; and his mother and mine.

And the mother of the lad said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee! And he rose up and followed her.

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is to thee as thy soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (whom thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.

If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;