37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

As one whom his mother comforteth, 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? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

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

Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an 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, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

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

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

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 to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

For I am 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 spake the woman whose the living child was 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 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.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Then saith he 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: she is the mother thereof.

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

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

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

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath 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 the LORD your God.

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

But Jerusalem which is 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.

And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, 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, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: