30 Bible Verses About Mothers And Daughters

“But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.’”

“She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.”

“Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”

“Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—”

“Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”

“and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.”

“Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”

“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

“Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,”

“Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:”

“For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’”

“Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.”

“I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.”

“A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.”

“Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.”

“When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she sat down at his right hand.”

“My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”

“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”

“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!’”

“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”

“My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck. When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.”

“When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.”

“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”

“So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast.”

“I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.”

“When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, ‘Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.’”

“Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.”

“The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.”

“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”