46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;

As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you, Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted.

To their mothers they say, 'Where are corn and wine?' In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them: Suckling ones He leadeth.

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.

Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

And kings have been thy nursing fathers, And their princesses thy nursing mothers; Face to the earth -- they bow down to thee, And the dust of thy feet they lick up, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah, That those expecting Me are not ashamed.

'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

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

Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

So that ye suck, and have been satisfied, From the breast of her consolations, So that ye wring out, and have delighted yourselves From the abundance of her honour.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, How -- bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,

Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me -- mother beside sons;

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And -- not a fool in his folly.

For thou art He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

I am of the peaceable -- faithful ones of Israel; thou art seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; why dost thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Lo, I am bringing them in from the north country, And have gathered them from the sides of the earth, Among them are blind and lame, Conceiving and travailing one -- together, A great assembly -- they turn back hither.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;