Mother

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Bible verses about “Mother”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
• Exodus 21:15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
• Exodus 21:17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
• Leviticus 18:7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
• Leviticus 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
• Leviticus 20:9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
• Deuteronomy 5:16Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
• 1 Kings 19:20And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
• Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Proverbs 6:20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
• Proverbs 15:20A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
• Proverbs 19:26He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
• Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Proverbs 23:22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
• Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Proverbs 23:24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
• Proverbs 23:25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
• Proverbs 28:24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
• Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
• Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
• Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
• Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• Matthew 15:4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
• Matthew 15:5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
• Matthew 15:6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
• Matthew 19:19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
• Mark 7:11But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
• Mark 7:12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
• Mark 10:19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
• Luke 18:20Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
• Ephesians 6:2Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
• 2 Timothy 1:5When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.