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39 Bible Verses Honoring Mother

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Proverbs 31:25-30 Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”

Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Proverbs 6:20  My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

Ephesians 6:2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Proverbs 23:22-25 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Exodus 20:12  “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Matthew 15:4-6 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

Isaiah 66:13  As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Proverbs 22:15  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Leviticus 20:9   For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Proverbs 29:15  The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 20:20 If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Leviticus 19:3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Proverbs 1:8  Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

Exodus 21:15  “Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Proverbs 28:24  Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.

Mark 10:19  You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

Proverbs 19:26  He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.

John 19:25-30  But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.

Mark 3:35  For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

Proverbs 10:1  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Luke 2:51  And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Exodus 21:17  “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Proverbs 30:11 There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Matthew 19:19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Proverbs 31:28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Proverbs 1:8-9 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Genesis 3:20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Luke 2:51-52  And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Proverbs 29:17  Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Isaiah 7:14  Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Matthew 19:5  And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

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