37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

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

“Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

“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.

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.

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.”

But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.

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

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

“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.

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

Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

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;

Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son and said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!”

The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”

Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),

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

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

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.

Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

Then the king said, “Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.”

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

The rod and reproof give wisdom,
But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.

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

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

“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.

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

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,

Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

“Also, I will have no compassion on her children,
Because they are children of harlotry.

But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

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

Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.

The mother of the lad said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” And he arose and followed her.

“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,

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.

“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,