Bible Verses About Mother's Love

“As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!”

“Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.”

“Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.”

“I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.”

“Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.”

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”

“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”

“When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.”

“And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.”

“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.”

“I thank my God every time I remember you.”

“May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!”

“He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!”

“Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.”

“Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding. The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him. May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!”

“Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised. So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised. And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.”

“These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”

“Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.”

“Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.”

“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him, I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.”

“Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.”

“For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.”

“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren. The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

“He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace. If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.”

“A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.”

“A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.”

“I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.”

“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well: “Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!”

“Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you.”

“Do everything in love.”

“We love because He first loved us.”

“Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!”

“No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.”

“A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.”

“In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron. Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.”

“Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

“Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.”

“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered. So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.”

“But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”

“And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.”

“Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.”

“You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”

“A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!”

“He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.”

“Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”

“By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established;”

“Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”

“Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.”

“Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.”