21 Bible Verses About Being a Mom

The Bible speaks about being a mother through commands, through the stories of particular mothers, and through images that set God’s care beside a mother’s. Proverbs puts a mother’s teaching beside a father’s (Proverbs 1:8; 6:20), and in Isaiah 66:13 God comforts his people “as one whom his mother comforts.” Among the mothers whose stories the Bible tells are Sarah (Genesis 21:1-2), the mother of Moses (Exodus 2:2-3), Hannah (1 Samuel 1:27-28), Mary (Luke 1:45; John 19:26-27) and Eunice, the…