50 Bible Verses about moms
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But Jesus replied to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”
For whoever does the will of God [by believing in Me, and following Me], he is My brother and sister and mother.”
“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you;
And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her who gave birth to you rejoice [in your wise and godly choices].
The rod and reproof (godly instruction) give wisdom,
But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
But we behaved gently when we were among you, like a devoted mother tenderly caring for her own children.
I remember your sincere and unqualified faith [the surrendering of your entire self to God in Christ with confident trust in His power, wisdom and goodness, a faith] which first lived in [the heart of] your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am confident that it is in you as well.
Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].
Just as you do not know the way and path of the wind or how the bones are formed in the womb of a pregnant woman, even so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish [stubborn] son [who refuses to learn] is a grief to his mother.
Then He said to the disciple (John), “Look! [here is] your mother [protect and provide for her]!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters, in all purity [being careful to maintain appropriate relationships].
My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not reject the teaching of your mother.
“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Listen to your father, who sired you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Honor [esteem, value as precious] your father and your mother [and be respectful to them]—this is the first commandment with a promise—
[The Lord answered] “Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.
Then the king said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to the one [woman] and half to the other.”
But He answered, “My mother and My brothers are these who listen to the word of God and do it!”
For God said [through Moses], ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’
“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].
A foolish son is a grief and anguish to his father
And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.
But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “Whatever [money or resource that] I have that would help you is [already dedicated and] given to God,”
My son, be guided by your father’s [God-given] commandment (instruction)
And do not reject the teaching of your mother;
He who robs his father or his mother
And says, “This is no sin,”
Is [not only a thief but also] the companion of a man who destroys.
But the Jerusalem above [that is, the way of faith, represented by Sarah] is free; she is our mother.
“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple.
For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
Without [any record of] father or mother, nor ancestral line, without [any record of] beginning of days (birth) nor ending of life (death), but having been made like the Son of God, he remains a priest without interruption and without successor.
Then His mother and His brothers arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called for Him.
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”
So Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved (esteemed) standing near, said to His mother, “[Dear] woman, look, [here is] your son!”
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.
I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul;
Like a weaned child [resting] with his mother,
My soul is like a weaned child within me [composed and freed from discontent].
That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts,
That you may drink deeply and be delighted with her bountiful bosom.”
Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day.
My praise is continually of You.
Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined [and be faithfully devoted] to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the Lord your God gives you.
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.
Moreover, his mother would make him a little robe and would bring it up to him each year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah [in marriage], and she became his wife, and he loved her; therefore Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired);
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying,
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite.
Yet You are He who pulled me out of the womb;
You made me trust when on my mother’s breasts.
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