37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children
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“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you;
And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
[The Lord answered] “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 her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] 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 behaved gently when we were among you, like a devoted mother tenderly caring for her own children.
My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not reject the teaching of your mother.
“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 [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple.
Now this woman’s son died during the night, because she lay on him [and smothered him].
Honor your father and mother; and love your neighbor as yourself” [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for others].
But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you return to your mother’s house. May the Lord show kindness to you as you have shown kindness to the dead and to me.
For I have come 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 moved over her son, “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; cut him!”
Then the king said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to the one [woman] and half to the other.”
Honor [esteem, value as precious] your father and your mother [and be respectful to them]—this is the first commandment with a promise—
Children, obey your parents [as God’s representatives] in all things, for this [attitude of respect and obedience] is well-pleasing to the Lord [and will bring you God’s promised blessings].
Listen to your father, who sired you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].
Then He said to the disciple (John), “Look! [here is] your mother [protect and provide for her]!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
Then the king said, “Give the first woman [who is pleading for his life] the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.”
Then [Salome] the mother of Zebedee’s children [James and John] came up to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down [in respect], asked a favor of Him.
The rod and reproof (godly instruction) give wisdom,
But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
So Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved (esteemed) standing near, said to His mother, “[Dear] woman, look, [here is] your son!”
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man despises his mother.
“Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will rise up and rebel against their parents and cause them to be put death.
The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish [stubborn] son [who refuses to learn] is a grief to his mother.
Jesus said, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up a house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,
Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.
“Also, I will have no mercy on her children,
Because they are the children of prostitution.
But the Jerusalem above [that is, the way of faith, represented by Sarah] is free; she is our mother.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].
Greet Rufus, an eminent and choice man in the Lord, also his mother [who has been] a mother to me as well.
The mother of the child said, “As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So Elisha arose and followed her.
“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as [precious to you as] your own life (soul), entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (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 the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand and discipline him, he will not listen to them,
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