46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days!

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants 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 nurse infants 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.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that are with young.

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

Notwithstanding, she will be saved in child-bearing, 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? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with their face towards 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 will be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and some of you will 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 will 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.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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 will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children will 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:

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Now the brother will betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and children will rise up against their parents, and will cause them to be put to death.

Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nourished infants.

That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may draw milk, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor the structure of the parts of conception in 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, worshiping 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 shall come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

The eye that mocketh at its father, and despiseth to obey its 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 bore them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are these who hear the word of God, and do it.

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

As new-born babes, desire the pure 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 boiled their own children: they were their food 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 brought me forth into life: 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 bore him.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the borders 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 hath children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

But he shall receive a hundred-fold 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.