Bible Verses about “being a good mother”
The Bible contains 50 verses about being a good mother across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.”
“So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
“Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
“¶ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies.”
“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”
“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.”
“Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.”
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”
“She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”
“Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”
“Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.”
“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.”
“She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.”
“She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.”
“She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.”
“She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.”
“She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night.”
“She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.”
“She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.”
“She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.”
“She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.”
“She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet.”
“Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.”
“Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
“So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.”
“Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.”
“And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
“And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”
“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.”
“Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.”
“And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.”
“¶ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;”
“[It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:”
“Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.”
“Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.”
“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”
“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
“¶ The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.”
“What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?”