37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem."

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never 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 detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. 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."

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

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

This woman's child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

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

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother's home! May the Lord show you the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands and to me!

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said, "My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don't kill him!" But the other woman said, "Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!"

The king then said, "Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!"

"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

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

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

He then said to his disciple, "Look, here is your mother!" From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

The king responded, "Give the first woman the living child; don't kill him. She is the mother."

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.

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 who was also a mother to me.

The mother of the child said, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha got up and followed her back.

Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,