46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people.

But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers bosom.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.

But ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and'some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

They shall be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

For I came 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:

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

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.

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

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.

The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:

But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.

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

I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall they return hither.

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.