Bible Verses About Motherly Love

Proverbs 31:25-3125 Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue. 27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: 29 “Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.” 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates! Related Topics: Beauty Kindness Mothers Relationships Strength
Proverbs 31:10-1210 Who can find a worthy woman? For her value is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. Related Topics: Love and Marriage Marriage Marriage Problems Mothers Relationships
Proverbs 23:22-2522 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice! Related Topics: Father's Day Joy Kids Mother's Day Mothers
Isaiah 49:13-1713 Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.” 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! 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. 17 Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you. Related Topics: Babies Comfort God's Love Love Motivation
Titus 2:3-53 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, 4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed. Related Topics: Love and Marriage Modesty Mother's Day Mothers Purity
Isaiah 66:1313 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.” Related Topics: Mothers
Exodus 20:1212 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. Related Topics: Children Family Mother's Day Mothers Women
2 Timothy 1:3-53 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; 5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also. Related Topics: Being Thankful Daughters Grandmothers Grandparents Mother's Day
Proverbs 1:8-98 My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching; 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck. Related Topics: Children Kids Mother's Day Mothers Relationships
Ephesians 6:1-31 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” Related Topics: Grandmothers Love and Relationships Mother's Day Mothers Obedience
Genesis 3:2020 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living. Related Topics: Daughters Loving Your Mother Mother's Day Mothers
Proverbs 22:66 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Related Topics: Children Family Mother's Day Mothers Relationships
John 19:25-2725 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. Related Topics: Loving Your Mother Mother's Day Mothers Women
Proverbs 6:20-2420 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. 21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. 22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, 24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. Related Topics: Family Father's Day Kids Mother's Day Mothers
Proverbs 29:15-1715 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother. 16 When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall. 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul. Related Topics: Children Kids Mother's Day Mothers Wisdom
1 Kings 3:24-2824 The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king. 25 The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.” 26 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 him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.” 27 Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.” 28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. Related Topics: God's Wisdom
1 Timothy 5:1-21 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. Related Topics: Mother's Day Mothers Purity Women Youth
Luke 2:51-5251 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. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. Related Topics: Being Humble Growth Mothers Raising Children Wisdom
Deuteronomy 5:1616 “Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. Related Topics: Father's Day Kids Mothers Raising Children Youth
1 Corinthians 13:4-84 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. Related Topics: Anger Family Forgiveness Love Mothers
Luke 1:46-4846 Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. 47 My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed. Related Topics: Loving Your Mother
Matthew 15:4-64 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,” 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. Related Topics: Dads Fathers Raising Children
1 Peter 3:1-41 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word, 2 seeing your pure behavior in fear. 3 Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing, 4 but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight. Related Topics: Humility Mother's Day Mothers Purity Self Worth
Psalm 127:3-53 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. Related Topics: Abortion Children Family Mother's Day Mothers
1 Thessalonians 2:7-87 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. Related Topics: Gentleness Relationships
Ezekiel 16:44-4544 “‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’ 45 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.
Deuteronomy 4:9-109 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children— 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.” Related Topics: Education Grandparents Learning Raising Children School
1 Samuel 1:23-2823 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.” So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young. 25 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli. 26 She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh. 27 I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him. 28 Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there. Related Topics: Babies Loving Your Mother Miscarriage Mother's Day Mothers
Psalm 139:13-1413 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. Related Topics: Acceptance Identity Loving Your Mother Purpose
John 3:16-1716 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. Related Topics: Anger Anxiety Death Faith Suicide
1 Peter 4:88 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. Related Topics: God's Love Marriage Mother's Day Mothers Relationships
Ruth 1:14-1714 They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her. 15 She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.” 16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.” Related Topics: Love and Marriage Loyalty Mother's Day Mothers Youth
Galatians 5:22-2322 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Related Topics: God's Love Joy Love Mother's Day Mothers
Luke 1:34-3834 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?” 35 The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God. 36 Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37 For nothing spoken by God is impossible.” 38 Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. Related Topics: God's Sovereignty Graduation Mother's Day Not Giving Up The Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 13:1313 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. Related Topics: Faith Family Hope Marriage Mother's Day
2 Timothy 3:14-1514 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Related Topics: Faith Grandparents Loving Your Mother Salvation Walking with Jesus
Matthew 23:37-3837 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! 38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
Genesis 21:14-1614 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. Related Topics: Feeling Alone When You Feel Alone
Jeremiah 50:11-1511 “Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses, 12 your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 13 Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against Yahweh. 15 Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.
Proverbs 14:11 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. Related Topics: Fools Wives Women
Exodus 21:1717 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. Related Topics: Cursing Cussing Father's Day Fathers Mothers
3 John 1:44 I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. Related Topics: Daughters Father's Day Fathers Mother's Day Teaching Children
Deuteronomy 32:11-1211 As 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. 12 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. Related Topics: Mother's Day
1 Kings 15:1010 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
Deuteronomy 6:6-76 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. Related Topics: Daughters Family Love Loving Your Children Loving Your Mother
1 John 4:1919 We love him, because he first loved us. Related Topics: Family Valentine's Day
1 Samuel 2:1919 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.
Romans 8:38-3938 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Related Topics: Anxiety Depression Motivation Stress Suicide
Luke 1:5-75 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years. Related Topics: Character Righteousness
John 15:1313 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Related Topics: God Loves You Jesus Died for Our Sins Loving Others Suffering Valentine's Day

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