Mother’s Day scriptures are an excellent contribution to your Mother’s Day celebration. They often get to the heart of the importance of motherhood, and the importance of honoring mothers, and cherishing them. There are a number of scriptures that refer to mothers, how they ought to be treated, and what happens when you don’t treat a mother right. These scriptures can be great to quote in Mother’s Day toasts, or use as an inscription in a Mother’s Day card. The following are a number of Mother’s Day scriptures that make great additions to your mother’s Day celebration, regardless of how you choose to encorporate them in.
Scriptures from Proverbs, as it is a very poetic book of scripture include:
Proverbs 1:8-9
Proverbs 6:20-22
Proverbs 10:1
Proverbs 15:20
Proverbs 19:26-27
Proverbs 20:20
Proverbs 23:22-25
Proverbs 28:24
Proverbs 29:15
Proverbs 30:11
Proverbs 30:17
Proverbs 31:1
Proverbs 31:10-12
The Proverbs scriptures are typically about the importance of honoring your mother, and her worth to her family. Of course, other books of scripture also offer wonderful verses about mothers.
The following are some of the better ones for Mother’s Day celebrations:
John 19:26-27 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” (27) Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
Mark 10:29-30 ESV Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, (30) who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
Matthew 10:37-38 ESV Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (38) And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 15:4-6 ESV [Jesus speaking] For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ (5) But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, (6) he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (2) “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), (3) “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
2 Timothy 1:5 ESV I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
Exodus 20:12 ESV “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Leviticus 19:3 ESV Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
