21 Bible Verses About Being a Mom



  • Proverbs 1:8 and 6:20 put a mother’s teaching beside a father’s commandment, and Deuteronomy 6:7 gives the command to teach children to every household.
  • Proverbs 31 is introduced as words that King Lemuel’s mother taught him (31:1).
  • Leviticus 19:3 names the mother before the father in the command to revere parents.
  • Isaiah 49:15 and 66:13 compare God to a mother, and Paul compares his care for the Thessalonians to a nursing mother’s (1 Thessalonians 2:7).
  • 2 Timothy 1:5 traces Timothy’s faith through his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice.

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…

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