46 Bible Verses about Mothers

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness; there is a generation, how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up! a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother; there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness; there is a generation, how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!read more.
a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

But he answering said to him that spoke to him, Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;

Thou art the daughter of thy mother that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; for they shall not be ashamed who wait on me.

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord; and his mother and mine.

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

And the Lord, seeing her, was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, Weep not;

Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

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

Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother; for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.

For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

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

But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren are standing without, seeking to speak to thee.