50 Bible Verses about moms

But Jesus answered the one who was telling Him and said, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”

For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you;
And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

The rod and reproof give wisdom,
But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.

But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.

For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

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

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

“Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

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

But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

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

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God,”

My son, observe the commandment of your father
And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

He who robs his father or his mother
And says, “It is not a transgression,”
Is the companion of a man who destroys.

But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

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

For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him.

Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”

When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

“He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

Surely I have composed and quieted my soul;
Like a weaned child rests against his mother,
My soul is like a weaned child within me.

That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts,
That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom.”

By You I have been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb;
My praise is continually of You.

Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

His mother *said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:

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

Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;
You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.