46 Bible Verses about Mothers

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Proverbs 30:12-14

A generation pure in its eyes, and not washed from its finding. A generation, how its eyes were raised up and its eyelashes will be lifted up. A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.

Proverbs 30:11-14

A generation will curse its father, and will not bless its mother. A generation pure in its eyes, and not washed from its finding. A generation, how its eyes were raised up and its eyelashes will be lifted up.read more.
A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.

Matthew 12:48

And he having answered, said to him speaking to him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

Ezekiel 16:45

Thou thy mother's daughter loathing her husband and her sons; and thou the sister of thy sisters who loathed their husbands and their sons: your mother a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Isaiah 49:23

And kings were thy supporters, and princesses thy nurses: their faces to the earth they shall worship to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah, that they shall not be ashamed waiting for me.

Matthew 20:20

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

Isaiah 50:1

Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Hosea 2:2

Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Proverbs 1:8-9

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother: For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat

Luke 21:23

And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck, in those days! for there shall be great necessity upon the land, and anger upon this people.

Matthew 12:47

And a certain one said to him, Behold, thy mother, and thy brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee.

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Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Jesus

John 19:25-26

And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. Jesus then having seen the mother, and the disciple standing near, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » Rizpah's love for her sons

2 Samuel 21:9-10

And he will give them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they will hang them in the mountain before Jehovah: and the seven will fall together, and they were put to death in the days of harvest in the first of the beginning of the harvest of barley. And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah will take sackcloth and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest till water was given upon them from the heavens, and she gave not the birds of the heavens to rest upon them in the day and the beast of the field at night

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » Hagar's love for her child

Genesis 21:16

And she will go and seat herself from over against., being far off as the bending of a bow: for she said, I will not see the death of the child. And she will seat herself from over against, and she will lift up her voice and weep.

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The canaanitish mother

Matthew 15:22

And, behold, a woman, a Canaanite, having come forth from those boundaries, cried out to him, saying, Pity me, Lord, son of David; my daughter is badly possessed with an evil spirit.

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of samuel

1 Samuel 2:19

And his mother will make to him a little upper garment, and bring up to him from days to days, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of days.

Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Sons of jonadab

Jeremiah 35:8

And we will hear to the voice of Jonadab son of Rechab our father, for all which he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters;

Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Elisha

1 Kings 19:20

And he will forsake the oxen and run after Elijah, and say, I will kiss now to my father and to my mother, and I will go after thee. And he will say to him, Go, turn back; for what did I to thee?

Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Joseph

Genesis 41:12

And there with us a Hebrew youth, servant to the chief of the cooks: and we shall relate to him, and he will interpret to us our dreams; and he interpreted a man according to his dream.

Mothers » Examples of filial honour » David

1 Samuel 22:3

And David will go from thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he will say to the king of Moab, My father will come forth now, and my mother with you, till I shall know what God will do to me.

Mothers » Devout » Hannah

1 Samuel 1:22

And Hannah went not up; for she said to her husband, Till the boy shall be weaned, and I brought him, and he saw the face of Jehovah, and he shall sit there even to forever.

Mothers » Devout » Eunice

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother's unforgettable love

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of solomon's time

1 Kings 3:26

And the woman to whom the living son, will say to the king, for her bowels were warm upon her son, and she will say, With leave, my lord, ye shall give to her the living child, and slaying, ye shall not slay him. And this said, It shall not be even to me, even to thee; divide it

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The shunammite mother

2 Kings 4:20

And he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will sit upon her knees till noon, and he will die.

Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Solomon

1 Kings 2:19

And Bathsheba will go to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king will rise up to her meeting, and worship to her, and he sat upon his throne, and a throne will be set for the king's mother; and she will sit at his right hand.

Mothers » Devout » Sarah

Genesis 21:6

And Sarah will say, God made me laugh; all hearing will laugh with me.

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of moses

Exodus 2:3

And she will not be able any more to hide him, and she will take for him an ark of bulrush, and will pitch it with bitumen and with pitch, and she will put in it the child, and will put in the sedge by the lip of the river.

Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of jesus

John 19:25

And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

Mothers » Devout » Elizabeth

Mothers » Devout » Mary

Topics on Mothers

Animal Mothers

Exodus 22:30

Thus shalt thou do to thine ox, to thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its mother; in the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.

Breasts, Nursing Mothers

1 Samuel 1:23

And Elkanah her husband will say to her, Do the good in thine eyes; sit till thy weaning him; but Jehovah will raise up his word. And the woman will sit and suckle her son till her weaning him.

Mothers And Daughters

Ezekiel 16:44-46

Behold, all using parables will use a parable against thee, saying, As the mother, the daughter.

Mothers Of Kings

Genesis 17:16

And I blessed her, and I gave thee also a son of her: and I blessed her and she was for nations, and kings of people shall be from her.

Mothers, As A Symbol

Deuteronomy 32:11

As the eagle he will arouse his young brood, He will brood over his young birds; He will spread out his wings, and will take them; He will lift them up upon his wings:

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