17 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

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;

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 were gentle among you, like a mother nursing her little children.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

honor your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

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;

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

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

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

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons and, kneeling down, asked something of him.

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"

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

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 lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

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

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

And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.