46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

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

They will be at war, the father against his son, and the son against his father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.

As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.

Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.