Topic

Mothers And Sons

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Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Proverbs 1:8–9

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Ephesians 6:1–3

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

2 Timothy 1:5

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

John 19:26–27

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:3

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Deuteronomy 5:16

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Psalms 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

John 19:25–27

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Psalms 139:13

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Proverbs 23:22–25

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 30:17

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Proverbs 31:10–12

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Matthew 15:4–6

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Proverbs 31:1–31

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 1:8

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Deuteronomy 6:6–7

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 4:9–10

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children; — read the full passage →

Psalms 127:3–5

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Psalms 113:9

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

John 16:21

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

Luke 1:46–48

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:25

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

Proverbs 13:24

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Luke 1:43

Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 23:13–14

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Titus 2:4–5

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 31:25–31

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Hebrews 12:5–11

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:2

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Luke 1:5–6

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. — read the full passage →

Exodus 21:15

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Titus 2:3–5

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

Genesis 21:1–3

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. — read the full passage →

Matthew 15:4

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Proverbs 19:26–27

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

Proverbs 6:20–21

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

Luke 1:38

Mary said, “Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word.” The angel departed from her.

Matthew 19:19

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

Proverbs 29:17

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Proverbs 6:20–22

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

1 Chronicles 16:11

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Genesis 3:20

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

John 2:3–4

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” — read the full passage →

Luke 2:22–24

When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord — read the full passage →

Mark 10:29–30

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, — read the full passage →

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”

Ephesians 6:1–4

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Proverbs 29:3

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Genesis 3:15

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

1 John 4:8

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Titus 2:4

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Luke 18:20

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

Matthew 12:46–50

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:24

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Matthew 10:35

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Mark 3:31–35

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:15–16

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine: — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 21:18–21

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

John 19:25

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Matthew 10:37

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.

Proverbs 23:1–35

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; — read the full passage →

Revelation 19:16

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Titus 2:13

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Leviticus 20:9

“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

2 Timothy 3:15

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Luke 1:1–80

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

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