20 Bible Verses about Motherhood

But woe to the women with child, and to those giving suck, in those days!

Woe to the women with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress on the land, and wrath to this people.

But woe to those with child and to those giving suck in those days!

But we became gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:

the elder women, as mothers: younger, as sisters, in all purity.

But she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.

But ye will be delivered up even by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

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

for I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

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

"And brother will deliver up brother to death; and father, his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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

for, behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Happy the barren, and the wombs which bore not, and breasts that gave not suck.'

Then came to Him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshiping and asking something of Him.

And He, answering, said to them, "My mother and My brothers 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.

as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,

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

But, if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to show regard to their own family, and to make returns to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.