What Does the Bible Say About Being A Mother?

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 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. ...

Mark 16:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 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. ...

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 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.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

17 Bible Verses about Being A Mother

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 16:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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17 Bible Verses about Being A Mother

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Psalm 127:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 16:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote