17 Bible Verses about Mothers Love For Her Children

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:

the father will be 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:

so he turned and said to them, If any man come to me, and does not comparatively hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.

and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.

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:

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

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

and then saith to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the same disciple took her to his own home.

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Him, together with her two sons, falling down before Him, and presenting a petition to Him.

Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son:

Brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death:

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I tell you, there is no one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,

But the Jerusalem above is represented by the free-woman, 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 even mine.

yea and every one who hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall receive an hundred-fold, and shall inherit eternal life.