Celebrate the Moms In Your Life – 37 Inspiring Bible Verses For Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day Bible Verses

Celebrate Mother’s Day most meaningfully by sending your mom a thoughtful Bible verse. Honor and bless her with a message that expresses your love and appreciation while acknowledging God’s love for her. 

Take inspiration from the many women in the Bible who have devoted their lives to being loving and selfless mothers. Let their sacrifices exemplify what it means to be a true mother of faith. 

Give thanks and show your gratitude to the mother figures in your life, whether biological, stepmothers, family friends or any inspiring women who have helped you become who you are meant to be. 

Share these beautiful tribute verses on social media or write them in a thoughtful card. Make this Mother’s Day memorable for the extraordinary women in your life.

Encouraging Old Testament Bible Verses For Moms

Genesis

Genesis 21:1-3 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 4:9-10 Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

Deuteronomy 5:16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Exodus

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.

Isaiah

Isaiah 40:31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 49:15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

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

Proverbs

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.

Proverbs 5:18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 6:20-22 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.

Proverbs 17:6 Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

Proverbs 19:26-27 Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace. Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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

Proverbs 23:22-24 Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy the truth and do not sell it— wisdom, instruction and insight as well. The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.

Proverbs 24:3 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;

Proverbs 31:10-12 A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.

Proverbs 31:25 She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.

Proverbs 31:28-29 Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”

Psalms

Psalms 23:6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

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

Psalms 113:9 He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.

Psalms 139:13-14 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

1 Samuel

1 Samuel 1:27-28 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD.” And he worshiped the LORD there.

Encouraging New Testament Bible Verses For Moms

Colossians

Colossians 3:24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Ephesians

Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

Galatians

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

John

John 16:21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

John 19:25-27 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 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.

Luke

Luke 1:46-48 And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed,

Matthew

Matthew 15:4-6 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

Phillippians

Philippians 1:2-3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you.

Titus

Titus 2:3-5 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.

 1 Corinthians

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.

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

 1 Peter

1 Peter 3:4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

 2 Timothy

2 Timothy 1:5 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.

 3 John

3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Conclusion

Whether you’re an expecting mother, a young mother, or a veteran of motherhood, it is always beneficial to look to the Bible for encouragement. This Mother’s Day, take a moment to reflect on these empowering verses — whether Old Testament or New Testament — to draw strength and wisdom from the Almighty.

Find inspiring words to feel encouraged about this amazing role of motherhood that we have been appointed with. Let us each be mindful of not only looking for ways to express our love and gratitude towards those who gave and give us life, but also taking time out of our days and routines to practice the poses placed upon us for being mothers.

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