Mothers play an essential role in shaping their children’s lives, and the Bible contains numerous verses that highlight the value of motherhood and the family unit.
These verses offer comfort, encouragement, and insight into the profound love and sacrifice of being a mother.
We will explore some of the most inspiring and uplifting Bible verses about mothers and family, providing insight into the blessings and challenges of parenting and offering guidance for building strong, loving family relationships.
Bible Verses About Mothers and Family
1. Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.”
2. Proverbs 31:28
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.”
3. Ephesians 6:1-3
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother – which is the first commandment with a promise – so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
4. Proverbs 23:22
“Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
5. Colossians 3:20
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”
6. Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks a father, that scorns an aged mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures.”
7. Proverbs 6:20
“My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.”
8. Leviticus 19:3
“Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.”
9. 2 Timothy 1:5
“I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.”
10. Psalm 127:3
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”
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11. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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.”
12. Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
13. Proverbs 1:8-9
“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.”
14. Ephesians 6:4
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
15. Psalm 78:4-6
“We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children.”
16. Proverbs 13:24
“Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
17. Colossians 3:21
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
18. Psalm 103:13
“As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.”
19. Titus 2:4-5
“Train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”
20. Hebrews 12:7-11
“It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?… For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
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21. Isaiah 49:15-16
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.”
22. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
23. Psalm 139:13-14
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
24. Hosea 11:1-4
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son… I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.”
25. John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
26. Romans 8:38-39
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
27. 1 John 3:1
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”
28. Psalm 103:11-12
“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.”
29. Lamentations 3:22-23
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
30. Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
The Importance of Honoring Your Father and Mother According to the Bible
31. Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
32. Proverbs 1:8-9
“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.”
33. Proverbs 23:22
“Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
34. Leviticus 19:3
“Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.”
35. Ephesians 6:1-3
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother…that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
36. Colossians 3:20
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”
37. Matthew 15:4-6
“For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.”
38. Deuteronomy 11:18-19
“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
39. Malachi 4:6
“And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
40. Luke 2:51
“And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.”
The Blessings of Children According to the Bible
41. Psalm 127:3-5
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.”
42. Matthew 19:14
“But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
43. Proverbs 17:6
“Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.”
44. Mark 10:14-16
“But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.”
45. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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.”
46. Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
47. Genesis 33:5
“And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
48. Psalm 113:9
“He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!”
49. 3 John 1:4
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
50. Proverbs 31:28-29
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.'”
The Love and Protection of Family According to the Bible
51. Proverbs 17:17
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
52. Psalm 68:6
“God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.”
53. Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,”
54. Psalm 91:4
“He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.”
55. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”
56. Colossians 3:18-21
“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
57. Psalm 127:1
“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.”
58. Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
59. Joshua 24:15
“And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
60. 1 Timothy 5:8
“But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
Motherhood and Parenting According to the Bible
61. Proverbs 22:15
“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.”
62. Proverbs 31:25-28
“Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:”
63. Psalm 139:13-14
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
64. Proverbs 29:15
“The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.”
65. Psalm 127:3
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”
Conclusion
God ordained the family unit as the foundational building block of civilization from the beginning of time. We witness examples of strong and dedicated moms who played important roles in the lives of their children and the larger community throughout the Old and New Testaments.
These words emphasize the love, sacrifice, and commitment that mothers provide to their families and the importance of honoring and cherishing them. Whether you are a mother yourself or simply want to express your appreciation for the significant mothers in your life, these verses are a strong reminder of the blessings of family and the love that unites us all.
