46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

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.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem."

(Lamed) Children say to their mothers, "Where are food and drink?" They faint like a wounded warrior in the city squares. They die slowly in their mothers' arms.

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters -- with complete purity.

Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother's womb.

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

Kings will be your children's guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to 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 who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

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

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'

For you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

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

Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother -- the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

For I, the Lord, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

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

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!

(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother's breasts.

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

I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord's inheritance?"

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

Then I will reply, 'I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much -- homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions -- and in the age to come, eternal life.