46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

As a mother comforts her son,
so I will comfort you,
and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

ל LamedThey cry out to their mothers:
Where is the grain and wine?
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.

Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.

He protects His flock like a shepherd;
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them in the fold of His garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.

older women as mothers, and with all propriety, the younger women as sisters.

For it was You who created my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues in faith, love, and holiness, with good judgment.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.

Let your father and mother have joy,
and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.

Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you
with their faces to the ground,
and lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
those who put their hope in Me
will not be put to shame.

You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.

Solomon’s proverbs:

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.

They will be divided, father against son,
son against father,
mother against daughter,
daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.

A rod of correction imparts wisdom,
but a youth left to himself
is a disgrace to his mother.

For I came to turn

a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother—and mine.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

so that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her comforting breast
and drink deeply and delight yourselves
from her glorious breasts.

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in the womb of a pregnant woman,
so you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached Him with her sons. She knelt down to ask Him for something.

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.

As for the eye that ridicules a father
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.

For this is what the Lord says concerning sons and daughters born in this place as well as concerning the mothers who bear them and the fathers who father them in this land:

But He replied to them, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

He gives the childless woman a household,
making her the joyful mother of children.
Hallelujah!

י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.

Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool in his foolishness.

You took me from the womb,
making me secure while at my mother’s breast.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

I am a peaceful person, one of the faithful in Israel, but you’re trying to destroy a city that is like a mother in Israel. Why would you devour the Lord’s inheritance?”

A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.

Watch! I am going to bring them from the northern land.
I will gather them from remote regions of the earth—
the blind and the lame will be with them,
along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth.
They will return here as a great assembly!

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.

who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.