46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

You who are pregnant or nursing babies in those days will feel trouble.

Woe to those who are pregnant and those who nurse a child in those days! There will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.

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

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

They say to their mothers: Where is grain and wine? When they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town. Their life is drained out while on their mother's breast.

But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.

He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young.

Treat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with much honor.

For you formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb.

She will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers forget, I will not forget you.

Your father and your mother will be glad. She who bore you will rejoice.

Kings will be your guardians. Their princesses will be your nurses. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth. They will lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Jehovah. Those who hopefully wait for me will not be put to shame.

Parent, brothers and sisters and friends will turn you over and cause you to be put to death.

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

They will be divided, 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.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doe not bless their mother.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

My coming will cause a separation. A man will be against his father and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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

People will hand over their brothers to be put to death. Parents will oppose children and children will oppose parents, causing them to be put to death.

A wise son makes a father glad. A foolish man despises his mother.

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast. They take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

Brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old.

The days are coming when they will say blessed are the barren those without children and the breasts that never nursed.

You will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts. You will nurse and be satisfied at her full breasts.

You do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of a pregnant woman. Even so you do not know the works of God who creates all.

The mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons. She bowed down and requested a favor of him.

Save me from the hand of Esau, my brother. I fear that he will attack me and kill both mothers and children.

The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

Jehovah says this about the sons and daughters born in this place, and about their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who begot them in this land:

He answered, My mother and my brother are these who hear the word of God, and do it.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.

He makes a childless woman a joyful mother. Praise Jehovah!

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs then a fool in his foolishness.

You are the one who brought me out of the womb. You made me feel safe at my mother's breasts.

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

We are peaceful and faithful Israelites. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? Why should you swallow up what belongs to Jehovah?'

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

I am bringing them from the North Country. I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth. Among them are the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child. As a great company they will return here.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

will receive a hundred times as much now in this time, and in the age to come everlasting life.