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22 Bible Verses About Mothers

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Summary

  • Exodus 20:12 names the mother beside the father in the Ten Commandments, and Leviticus 19:3 repeats the command with the mother named first.
  • Proverbs sets a mother’s teaching beside a father’s instruction (1:8; 6:20), and 2 Timothy 1:5 traces Timothy’s faith through his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice.
  • Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Hannah and the Shunammite woman were all without children before the births their stories record.
  • From the cross Jesus gives Mary into the beloved disciple’s care (John 19:26-27); Catholic teaching also reads the words as making her a mother to the church.
  • Isaiah 49:15 and 66:13 compare God’s care with a mother’s, and Paul compares his care for the Thessalonians with a nursing mother’s (1 Thessalonians 2:7).

The Bible tells children to honour their mothers, and it compares God’s care for his people with a mother’s care for her child. The command comes in Exodus 20:12 and again in Ephesians 6:1-3, and God speaks as a mother in Isaiah 49:15 and Isaiah 66:13. Other passages describe what mothers teach (Proverbs 1:8-9; 2 Timothy 1:5) and tell the stories of individual mothers, among them Hannah giving Samuel to the Lord (1 Samuel 1:27-28) and Mary at the cross…

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Bibliography (Click to show)

Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 964–968, on Mary as mother of the Church, including “a mother to us in the order of grace.” vatican.va

Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible, John 19: “Christ tenderly provided for his mother at his death.” biblehub.com/commentaries/mhc/john/19

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