37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

As a mother comforts her son,
so I will comfort you,
and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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

Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.

I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him.

honor your father and your mother;
and love your neighbor as yourself.

She said to them, “Each of you go back to your mother’s home. May the Lord show faithful love to you as you have shown to the dead and to me.

For I came to turn

a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion for her son. “My lord, give her the living baby,” she said, “but please don’t have him killed!”

But the other one said, “He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two!”

Solomon said, “Cut the living boy in two and give half to one and half to the other.”

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

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

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

Even if my father and mother abandon me,
the Lord cares for me.

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

The king responded, “Give the living baby to the first woman, and don’t kill him. She is his mother.”

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached Him with her sons. She knelt down to ask Him for something.

A rod of correction imparts wisdom,
but a youth left to himself
is a disgrace to his mother.

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing there, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

Solomon’s proverbs:

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.

“I assure you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house, brothers or sisters, mother or father, children, or fields because of Me and the gospel,

“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.

I will have no compassion on her children
because they are the children of promiscuity.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

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

The boy’s mother said to Elisha, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your fathers have known,

And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,