What Does the Bible Say About Taking Care Of Your Mother?

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 46 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Mark 11:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

John 5:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

1 Timothy 5:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Titus 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...

John 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

1 John 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. ...

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. ...

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

19 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Mother

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Mark 11:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

John 5:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Titus 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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19 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of Your Mother

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1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Mark 11:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

John 5:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Titus 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote