Today, we will discuss a very beautiful topic – a mother’s love for her son. There are many wonderful teachings in the Bible about this. Let’s see what it says.
How deep is the relationship between a mother and a son, right? I found many mothers in the Bible who were willing to do anything for their sons. It shows us how strong a mother’s love is.
Think about what your mother has done for you. Maybe she stayed up all night taking care of you, sacrificing her own happiness and comfort. This is mother’s love – unconditional, sacrificial.
Remember, when I had a problem as a child, how did my mother console me? That power, that trust – that is the image of God’s love.
The Bible also says that mutual respect between mother and son is very important. Mothers teach, sons learn. But it has to be through love and understanding. Have you developed such a relationship with your children? Where can they tell you anything?
Do you know how much the mothers in the Bible suffered for their children? But they never gave up. It teaches us that love involves sacrifice, suffering. But that sacrifice is what makes us human.
We can learn from these mothers how to pray, how to have faith. They show us how to raise our children spiritually.
Beautiful descriptions of maternal love are found in the Proverbs and Psalms of the Bible. Reading these, it seems that a mother’s love is really a precious gift of God.
Finally, I want to tell you, the impact of a mother’s love never ends. It spreads from generation to generation. Just as your mother’s love has raised you, so raise your children.
Contents
- 1 Biblical Examples of Maternal Devotion
- 2 Scriptures Highlighting a Mother’s Unconditional Affection
- 3 God’s Wisdom on the Mother-Son Bond
- 4 Verses Celebrating Maternal Sacrifice and Dedication
- 5 Spiritual Lessons from Biblical Mothers
- 6 Nurturing Faith: A Mother’s Divine Calling
- 7 Proverbs and Psalms on Motherly Love
- 8 The Eternal Impact of a Mother’s Love in Scripture
Biblical Examples of Maternal Devotion
“When she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, daubed it with slime with pitch, put the child therein; she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink”
Exodus 2:3

“For this child I prayed; the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him”
1 Samuel 1:27
“Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, she said, O my lord, give her the living child, in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it”
1 Kings 3:26
“Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, thy God my GodWhere thou diest, will I die, there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, more also, if ought but death part thee me”
Ruth 1:16-17
Scriptures Highlighting a Mother’s Unconditional Affection

“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee”
Isaiah 49:15
“Strength honour are her clothing; she shall rejoice in time to comeShe openeth her mouth with wisdom; in her tongue is the law of kindness”
Proverbs 31:25-26

“When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, thy mother Eunice; I am persuaded that in thee also”
2 Timothy 1:5
“Mary said, My soul doth magnify the LordAnd my spirit hath rejoiced in God my SaviourFor he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed”
Luke 1:46-48
God’s Wisdom on the Mother-Son Bond

“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, forsake not the law of thy mother”
Proverbs 1:8

“My son, keep thy father’s commandment, forsake not the law of thy mother”
Proverbs 6:20

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is rightHonour thy father mother; which is the first commandment with promiseThat it may be well with thee, thou mayest live long on the earth”
Ephesians 6:1-3

“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord”
Colossians 3:20
Verses Celebrating Maternal Sacrifice and Dedication
“Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, Mary MagdaleneWhen Jesus therefore saw his mother, the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy sonThen saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home”
John 19:25-27
“She went, sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. she sat over against him, lift up her voice, wept”
Genesis 21:16
“Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, nurse it for me, I will give thee thy wages. the women took the child, nursed it”
Exodus 2:9
“Moreover his mother made him a little coat, brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice”
1 Samuel 2:19
Spiritual Lessons from Biblical Mothers

“But Mary kept all these things, pondered them in her heart”
Luke 2:19
“David comforted Bathsheba his wife, went in unto her, lay with her: she bare a son, he called his name Solomon: the Lord loved him”
2 Samuel 12:24
“His mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, go fetch me them”
Genesis 27:13
“Then Manoah intreated the Lord , said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born”
Judges 13:8
Nurturing Faith: A Mother’s Divine Calling

“Train up a child in the way he should go: when he is old, he will not depart from it”
Proverbs 22:6

“These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heartAnd thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, when thou risest up”
Deuteronomy 6:6-7

“But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned themAnd that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus”
2 Timothy 3:14-15
“We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , his strength, his wonderful works that he hath doneFor he established a testimony in Jacob, appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their childrenThat the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise declare them to their childrenThat they might set their hope in God, not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments”
Psalm 78:4-7
Proverbs and Psalms on Motherly Love

“Her children arise up, call her blessed; her husband also, he praiseth herMany daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all”
Proverbs 31:28-29

“He maketh the barren woman to keep house, to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord”
Psalm 113:9

“Thy father thy mother shall be glad, she that bare thee shall rejoice”
Proverbs 23:25

“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : the fruit of the womb is his reward”
Psalm 127:3
The Eternal Impact of a Mother’s Love in Scripture
“The woman conceived, bare a son: when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months”
Exodus 2:2

“The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spokenFor Sarah conceived, bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him”
Genesis 21:1-2
“He went down with them, came to Nazareth, was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heartAnd Jesus increased in wisdom stature, in favour with God man”
Luke 2:51-52