46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.

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

But woe to those that are with child and to those 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 corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city; when they pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom.

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck.

elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

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

let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; for they shall not be ashamed who wait on me.

But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death some from among you,

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

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

For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

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

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

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

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father 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, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.

because ye shall suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; because ye shall drink out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something 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, and the mother with the children.

The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a 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 bear them, and concerning their fathers that beget them in this land:

But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who 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 desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, as a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!

The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin 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, upon my mother's breasts.

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

I am 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 bore him.

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

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

that shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the coming age life eternal.