46 Bible Verses about Mothers

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways. There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up! There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother. There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways. There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!read more.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

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

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

And one said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside, desiring to have talk with you.