46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!

Woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people,

And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!

As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

To their mothers they say, "Where is the bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in [the] public squares of a city, as their life is being poured out onto the bosom of their mothers.

{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather [the] lambs in his arm, and he will carry [them] in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.

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

Indeed you created my {inward parts}; you wove me in my mother's womb.

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Can a woman forget her suckling, [refrain] from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but I, I will not forget you!

May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.

And kings shall be your {guardians}, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, {faces} [to the] ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I [am] Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.

And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death [some] of you.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

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

[There is] a generation [that] will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless.

As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced [by] his mother.

For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Greet Rufus, the chosen one in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.

And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

For behold, days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that did not give birth, and [the] breasts that did not nurse!'

so that you may suck and be satisfied from her {consoling breast}, so that you may drink deeply and refresh yourselves from her {heavy breast}."

Just as you do not know how the path of the wind [goes], nor how the bones [of a fetus] form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, [and] kneeling down [she] asked something from him.

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children [alike].

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave birth to them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land:

But he answered [and] said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers--the ones who hear the word of God and do [it].

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

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

[He] causes the barren woman of the house to dwell [as] the happy mother of children. Praise Yah!

[The] hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

[May] a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring and not a fool in his folly.

Yet [you] took me from [the] belly; you made me trust [while] on my mother's breasts.

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

I [am] one of the faithful representatives of Israel. You [are] seeking to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow the inheritance of Yahweh?"

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Look, I [am] going to bring them from [the] land of [the] north, and I will gather them from [the] remotest part of [the] earth. Among them [the] blind, and [the] lame, [those who are] pregnant, and [those who] give birth, together, a great assembly, they will return here.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

{who will not} receive a hundred times as much now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.