37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

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

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their 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 her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not 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.

And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the LORDdeal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with 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 son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him."

And 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" (this is the first commandment with a promise),

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

Listen to your father who gave you life, 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 in.

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

Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother."

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.

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

When Jesus 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 glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow 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 lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.

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; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.

Then the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her.

"If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,'which neither you nor your fathers have known,

And everyone 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 will inherit eternal life.

"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,