37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

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

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:

I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

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

And this woman's child died in the night; because she laid on it.

Honor your father and your mother: and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned for her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor yours, but divide it.

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

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

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

Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Then said he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and by no means slay it: she is the mother of it.

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshiping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

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

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother, Woman, behold your son!

A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

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

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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

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

And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose, and followed her.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

And everyone that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: