50 Bible Verses about moms

But he replied to the man who told him, "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; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

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

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants 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 her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

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

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

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

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

"Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

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

But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, "What you would have gained from me is given to God,"

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, "That is no transgression," is a companion to a man who destroys.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and 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 have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance."

Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

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

Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.