46 Bible Verses about Mothers
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There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes. Their eyelids are lifted up. There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother. There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes. Their eyelids are lifted up.read more.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
Let your father and your mother be glad. Let her who bore you rejoice.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"
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.
But we were like children among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching:
As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem."
I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's children.
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed."
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Do not cry."
"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Thus says the LORD, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching: for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
He said to them, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days. For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Then one said to him, "Look, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you."
From Thematic Bible
Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Jesus
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, your son."
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » Rizpah's love for her sons
He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » Hagar's love for her child
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Do not let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The canaanitish mother
And just then a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and started shouting, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is severely demonized."
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of samuel
Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Sons of jonadab
We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Elisha
He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?"
Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Joseph
There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
Mothers » Examples of filial honour » David
David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."
Mothers » Devout » Hannah
But Hannah did not go up; for she said to her husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and stay there forever. I will offer him as a Nazirite forever, all the days of his life."
Mothers » Devout » Eunice
having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother's unforgettable love
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of solomon's time
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it." But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it."
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The shunammite mother
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
Mothers » Examples of filial honour » Solomon
Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Mothers » Devout » Sarah
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of moses
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
Mothers » Love of, for children, examples of » The mother of jesus
But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Mothers » Devout » Elizabeth
It happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Mothers » Devout » Mary
Topics on Mothers
Animal Mothers
Exodus 22:30You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
Breasts, Nursing Mothers
1 Samuel 1:23And Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good in your eyes. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the LORD establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
Devout mothers
Luke 2:25At that time there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
Examples Of Mothers' Love
Isaiah 49:15"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Mothers And Daughters
Ezekiel 16:44-46"'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, "As is the mother, so is her daughter."
Mothers And Sons
Luke 12:53They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Mothers Love For Children
1 Thessalonians 2:7But we were like children among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
Mothers Love For Her Children
Isaiah 66:13As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem."
Mothers Of Kings
Genesis 17:16And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. And I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
Mothers, As A Symbol
Deuteronomy 32:11As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
Mothers, Examples Of
Genesis 3:20The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Mothers, Responsibilities Of
Psalm 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.
Spiritual Mothers
1 Peter 3:6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.