37 Bible Verses about Grandmothers

I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.

Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

Because of this I remind you to rekindle God's gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.

But reject those myths fit only for the godless and gullible, and train yourself for godliness.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother's womb my grave forever.

You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.

He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

In the twentieth year of Jeroboam's reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.

Now when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down, sick with a fever.

As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line.

You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.

The Lord said to Moses: "Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron -- say to them, 'For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

and has a reputation for good works: as one who has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in distress -- as one who has exhibited all kinds of good works.

Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.

The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.

The neighbor women named him, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. Now he became the father of Jesse -- David's father!

He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,

But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him:

"'No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord.

Asa did what the Lord his God desired and approved.

The Lord is your protector; the Lord is the shade at your right hand.

Ben-Geber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he controlled the tent villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan, including sixty large walled cities with bronze bars locking their gates.