37 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

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

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes 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 her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

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

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!" But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it."

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," which is the first commandment with a promise:

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

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

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

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

Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother."

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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

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

The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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