Bible Verses About Mothers

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.