46 Bible Verses about Mothers

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully. There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers. There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.read more.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

To the one who had said this, Jesus replied, "Who is my mother and who are my brothers?"

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem."

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Kings will be your children's guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

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 will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

This is what the Lord says: "Where is your mother's divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.

Plead earnestly with your mother (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother's breasts.

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

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God's kingdom

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters -- with complete purity.

"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

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 respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Someone told him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you."