46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But alas! for the women with child, and for them that are giving suck, in those days;

Alas! for the women with child, and for them who are giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land, and anger against this people.

But alas for the women with child, and for them who are giving suck, - in those days.

As one whom, his mother, consoleth, So, will, I, console you, And in Jerusalem, shall ye be consoled.

To their mothers, they keep saying, Where are corn and wine? Swooning off, like one thrust through, in the broadways of the city, pouring out their life into the bosom of their mothers.

But we became gentle in your midst, - as though, a nursing mother, had been cherishing her own children:

Like a shepherd, his flock, will he tend, In his own arm, will he take up the lambs, And in his own bosom, will he carry them , - Them which are with young, will he lead to a place of rest.

Elderly women, as mothers, younger women, as sisters, in all chastity.

For, thou, didst possess thyself of my reins, thou didst weave me together in the womb of my mother.

She shall be saved, however, through means of the child-bearing, - if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobermindedness. Faithful, the saying.

Can, a woman, forget, her sucking child, Past taking compassion on the son of her womb? Even these, may forget, Yet will, I, not forget, thee:

Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.

And, kings, shall be, thy foster-fathers. And their queens, thy nursing mothers, With face to the ground, shall they bow down to thee, The dust of thy feet, shall they lick, - So shalt thou know that, I, am Yahweh, In that, they shall not be put to shame, Who were waiting for me.

But ye will be delivered up, even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends, and they will 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.

There shall be divided - Father against son, and son against father, mother against daughter, and daughter against the mother, - mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.

A generation! Its father, it revileth, and, its mother, it doth not bless.

A rod with rebuke, giveth wisdom, but, a youth unrestrained, bringeth shame to his mother.

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

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

And, brother, will deliver up, brother, unto death, and, father, child, - and, children, will rise up, against parents, and will put them to death.

A wise son, maketh a glad father, - but, a dullard, despiseth his own mother.

Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction of thy mother;

Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;

And, brother, will deliver up, brother, unto death, and, father, child, and, children, will rise up, against parents, and put them to death;

Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.

For lo! days are coming, in which they will say - Happy the barren! even the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

That ye may draw to satisfaction out of the fountain a of her consolations, - That ye may drain out and get exquisite delight from the abundance of her glory.

Just as thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, when the body is in the womb of her that is with child, even, so, canst thou not know the work of God, who maketh all.

Then came unto him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing down, and asking something from him.

Deliver me I pray thee out of the hand of my brother out of the hand of Esau, for I, am afraid of him, lest he come in and smite mother as well as sons

The eye that mocketh a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young of the eagle shall eat it.

For, Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are being horn in this place, - and concerning their mothers who do bear them, and concerning their fathers who do beget them, in this land,

But, he, answering, said unto them - My mother and my brethren, are, these - they who, the word of God, are hearing and doing.

Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;

As new-born babes, for the pure milk that is for the mind, eagerly crave, that, thereby, ye may grow unto salvation: -

Causing the barren woman to dwell in household, A mother of sons in her joy! Praise ye Yah.

The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their own children, - they have served as nourishment to them, in the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.

Let a bereaved bear encounter man, rather than a dullard, with his folly!

For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother;

Ye children, be obedient unto your parents in the Lord, for this is right:

I, am of the peaceable among the faithful in Israel, - thou, art seeking to put to death a city, and a mother in Israel, wherefore wouldst thou swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?

A vexation to his father, is the son that is a dullard, and a bitterness, to her that bare him.

Behold me bringing them in out of the land of the North, And I will gather them out of the remote parts of the earth, Among them, the blind and the lame The woman with child and she that giveth birth, together, - A great convocation, shall return hither:

Howbeit, if, any widow, hath, children or grandchildren, let them be learning - first, unto their own house, to be shewing reverence, and, returns, to be making unto their progenitors; for, this, is acceptable before God;

who shall not receive a hundredfold, now, in this season, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, - with persecutions, and, in the age that is coming, life age-abiding.