37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

As a man child whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even though they may forget, I will not forget thee.

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Thou art thy mother's daughter that discarded her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters who discarded their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

The father shall 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.

But we were gentle among you, as a mother feeding and caring for her children,

I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's sons.

My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And this woman's child died in the night because she lay on top of him.

Honour thy father and thy mother, and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to thy mother's house; the LORD deal with you in mercy as ye have dealt with the dead and with me.

For I have 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.

Then the woman, of whom the living child was, spoke unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

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

Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),

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

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

For my father and my mother have left me, and the LORD has taken me up.

Then he said to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it, for she is its mother.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshipping him and desiring a certain thing of him.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself shall bring his mother to shame.

When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.

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

A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

And answering him, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no one that has left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel's

Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.

Neither will I have mercy upon her sons, for they are the sons of whoredoms.

But the Jerusalem of above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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

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

Then the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. And he arose and followed her.

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend who is as thine own soul should entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou nor thy fathers have known,

And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.

When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them,