46 Bible Verses about Mothers

[There is] a generation [that] will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless.

[There is] a generation [that is] pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed. [There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift. [There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

[There is] a generation [that] will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless. [There is] a generation [that is] pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed. [There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.read more.
[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

But he answered [and] said to the one who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,

You [are] a daughter of your mother [who] abhorred her husband and her children, and you [are] a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother [was] a Hittite, and your father [was] an Amorite.

And kings shall be your {guardians}, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, {faces} [to the] ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I [am] Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, [and] kneeling down [she] asked something from him.

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

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

And [when] the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep!"

"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

Thus says Yahweh: "Where [is] this divorce document of your mother's divorce, [with] which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions.

Plead with your mother, plead-- because she [is] not my wife, and I [am] not her husband. Let her put away her whoring {from before her}, and her adultery from between her breasts.

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings, for they [are] a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck.

Yet [you] took me from [the] belly; you made me trust [while] on my mother's breasts.

For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God,

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

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people,

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

And someone told him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers are standing there outside desiring to speak to you."