Browse the many inspiring Bible verses about the beauty and importance of motherhood in this collection of scripture quotes.
In addition to various scripture quotes about mothers, we have included a section of Proverbs 31 summarizing "the wife of noble character" which describes the faith, love, and hope of a righteous mother. Raising children is often mentioned in the Bible as having a crucial significance and gives instruction on how to "train them up."
"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)
May these mother Bible verses encourage your own personal life or a mother you know with biblical wisdom and truth!
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
“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.
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
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.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
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.
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
She gets up while it is still night; she provides food for her family and portions for her female servants. She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night. In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet. She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple. Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land. She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes. She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
"God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves." - Saint John Chrysostom
"A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer." - Saint John Chrysostom
"You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God’s fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts." - Charles Spurgeon
"The Christian mom doesn’t love Jesus instead of loving her children; she loves Jesus by loving her children." - Jen Wilkin
"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” - C. S. Lewis
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
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.
If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.