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? yes, they may forget, yet I will 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, who lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

The father will 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 to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.

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

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

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

Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And Naomi said to 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 spoke the woman whose the living child was to 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.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise)

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Hearken to 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 to his own home.

Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother of it.

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, worshiping 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 to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

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

And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children will 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.

Jesus answered and said, Verily I say to 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 are the children of lewdness.

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, who is as thy own soul, shall 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 a hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

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