30 Heartfelt Bible Verses About a Mother’s Love for Her Son

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother.

Strength and honor are her clothing; she shall rejoice in time to come.

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

For I was my father’s son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.

Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for she yearned for her son.

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

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

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. But His mother kept all these things in her heart.

When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.

For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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

For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.

Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, and I will bless them.”

Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

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

A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.”

But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

That they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

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

A mother’s love is more than a treasure; it is the greatest gift of all.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us.

A mother’s love is the golden thread that binds the heart of the family.

A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.