46 Bible Verses about Motherhood
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But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
But woe to 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 corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, 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.
The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
For I am come 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 chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their 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:
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall 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 the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which 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 spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring 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 will come and smite me, and 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 the LORD 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;
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat 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 hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
I am one 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 the LORD?
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 coasts 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 return thither.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
But he shall receive an 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.
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