37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

For like as a child is comforted of his mother, so shall I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Doth a wife forget the child of her womb, and the son who she hath born? And though she do forget, yet will not I forget thee.

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

Thou art even thy mother's own daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children. Yea, thou art the sister of thy sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a 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 were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's children.

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

"If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

And this woman's child died in a night, for she had overlaid it.

Honour father and mother: and thou shalt love thine neighbor as thyself."

Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, "Go, and return each of you unto your mother's house. The LORD deal as kindly with you, as ye 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 spake the woman whose son lived, unto the king - for her motherly heart was kindled with pity over her son - and said, "I beseech thee, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it." And the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor thine, but divide it."

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

"Honour thy father and mother," that is the first commandment that hath any promise,

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

When my father and my mother forsake me, the LORD taketh me up.

Then said he to the disciple, "Behold thy mother." And from that hour the disciple took her for his own.

Then the king answered and said, "Give her the living child and slay it not, for she is the mother thereof."

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

The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple standing whom he loved, he said unto his mother, "Woman behold thy son."

A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.

The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall arise against their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death,

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

Jesus answered and said, "Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath forsaketh house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, other children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's,

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

I shall have no pity also upon her children, for they be the children of fornication.

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

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

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

Notwithstanding, the mother of the child said, "As sure as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee." And then he arose and followed her.

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thine own son or thy daughter or the wife that lieth in thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul unto thee, entice thee secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve strange gods which thou hast not known nor yet thy fathers,

And whosoever forsaketh houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake; the same shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them: