Bible Verses About Motherhood

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

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

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

Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

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

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

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

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

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

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

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.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

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

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.