20 Bible Verses about Motherhood

Alas for thee women who are with child, and for the nursing mothers in those days!

"Woe to women with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For sore anguish will come upon the land, and wrath upon all his people.

And alas for the pregnant women, and for those that are nursing their infants in those days!

On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

the older women as mothers, the younger women as sisters in all purity.

Notwithstanding she will be saved by the Child-bearing; (so will they all), if they live in faith and love and holiness, with self-restraint.

"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.

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

"For I came to set "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

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

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death.

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, kneeling down and begging a favor of him.

"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

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

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

but shall receive a hundred times as much, now in this present world, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands??nd persecutions with them??nd in the world to come eternal life.