45 Bible Verses about Mothers And Sons

Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, and David our lord does not know it?

They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

“Do not stare at me because I am swarthy,
For the sun has burned me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me caretaker of the vineyards,
But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

This woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on it.

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

As he lifted his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” And he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you;
And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Who said of his father and his mother,
‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For they observed Your word,
And kept Your covenant.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.

My son, observe the commandment of your father
And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

“He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

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

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

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She *said to Him, “Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left.”

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

He who robs his father or his mother
And says, “It is not a transgression,”
Is the companion of a man who destroys.

“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;

When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

“You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.

Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,

Among them was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

He who assaults his father and drives his mother away
Is a shameful and disgraceful son.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel struggled with each other in the camp.

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

When I was a son to my father,
Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in this land:

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.

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

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”