Although Mother’s Day is focused upon mothers, it gives everyone of us an opportunity to reflect upon God’s teaching that have to do with mothers. After all, everyone on the planet has a mother. As we approach Mother’s Day, give these verses some careful consideration and meditation. Whether you are a mother, will be a mother, or just have a mother, they will encourage your heart and strengthen your soul.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Deuteronomy 4:9-10 “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children.
4. Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
5. Deuteronomy 11:19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
6. Psalm 115:14-15 May the LORD make you increase, both you and your children. May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
7. Psalms 127:3-5 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
8. Proverbs 14:1 The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
9. Proverbs 14:26 He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.
10. Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
11. Proverbs 31:31 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
12. Joel 1:2-3 Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
13. Luke 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
14. Luke 18:28-30 And Peter said, “See, we have left our homes and followed you.” And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”
15. Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
16. Colossians 3:20-24 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
17. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children.
18. 1 Timothy 5:3-4 Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
19. Titus 2:3-5 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
20. 1 Peter 1:22 Love one another deeply, from the heart.