20 Bible Verses About a Mother’s Love, From Hannah to Mary

  • Twice Isaiah reaches for a mother as the image for how God loves — and in Isaiah 49:15 he concedes the exception in the same breath: though she may forget, I will not forget you.
  • Solomon’s test works because the real mother is the one willing to lose the child (1 Kings 3:26); Hannah makes the same movement at 1 Samuel 1:28.
  • Paul traces Timothy’s faith through his grandmother and mother without mentioning his father.
  • From the cross, Jesus put his mother in the care of the disciple he loved (John 19:26-27).
  • Genesis 21:16 keeps Hagar sitting a bowshot away because she cannot watch her son die, and God finds her there.

The Bible praises a mother’s love and more than once uses it as a picture of God’s love. Isaiah writes, “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you” (Isaiah 66:13), and asks whether a mother can forget the baby at her breast, adding that even if she does, God will not forget (Isaiah 49:15). The twenty verses below also include the mothers in the Bible’s stories, from Hannah and Naomi to Mary, what mothers are said to…

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