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100 Bible Verses about Mothers Day

Isaiah 66:13 ESV / 654 helpful votes

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

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 607 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 567 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 499 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 488 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 424 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 31:25-31 ESV / 399 helpful votes

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: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” ...

Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 390 helpful votes

“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.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 383 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 369 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

Luke 1:46-48 ESV / 333 helpful votes

And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;

2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 332 helpful votes

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.

Luke 2:51 ESV / 309 helpful votes

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 308 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 304 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 302 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 295 helpful votes

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 292 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, 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.

Proverbs 23:22-25 ESV / 287 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 276 helpful votes

But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 273 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 270 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 268 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 267 helpful votes

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

John 19:26-27 ESV / 261 helpful votes

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 259 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so 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.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 254 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 254 helpful votes

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

John 19:25-27 ESV / 252 helpful votes

But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, 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, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

Proverbs 11:16 ESV / 250 helpful votes

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

Proverbs 23:25 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Matthew 15:4-6 ESV / 240 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 240 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 238 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Genesis 3:20 ESV / 231 helpful votes

The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 222 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 221 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 6:20-22 ESV / 220 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

Proverbs 31:26-27 ESV / 219 helpful votes

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.

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 216 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 215 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 212 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 212 helpful votes

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. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 202 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

Proverbs 31:25-30 ESV / 201 helpful votes

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: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” ...

Genesis 21:1-3 ESV / 193 helpful votes

The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 190 helpful votes

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 189 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 185 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 184 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

2 Kings 4:30 ESV / 179 helpful votes

Then the mother of the child said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 177 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

1 Timothy 5:2 ESV / 174 helpful votes

Older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Proverbs 19:26-27 ESV / 170 helpful votes

He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach. Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Philippians 1:2-3 ESV / 169 helpful votes

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

1 Samuel 1:26-28 ESV / 163 helpful votes

And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord. For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 159 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 157 helpful votes

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 153 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 145 helpful votes

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 6:20-21 ESV / 140 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 5:18 ESV / 139 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

Luke 1:5-6 ESV / 138 helpful votes

In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:9-10 ESV / 137 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children— how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 136 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 134 helpful votes

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.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 133 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Mark 10:29-30 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

Proverbs 31:28-29 ESV / 131 helpful votes

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.”

Ezekiel 16:44 ESV / 129 helpful votes

“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 126 helpful votes

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 125 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

James 1:17 ESV / 123 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 120 helpful votes

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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.”

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 23:22-24 ESV / 115 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Proverbs 31:1 ESV / 114 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:

Proverbs 30:11 ESV / 114 helpful votes

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Luke 18:20 ESV / 112 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 112 helpful votes

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 109 helpful votes

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 108 helpful votes

And so 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.

Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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.

Luke 2:33-35 ESV / 104 helpful votes

And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him. And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Matthew 10:37 ESV / 100 helpful votes

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

John 3:16 ESV / 99 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 99 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Colossians 3:24 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Exodus 21:17 ESV / 93 helpful votes

“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

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