Motherhood

"Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God." [Leviticus 19:3]

"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck." [Proverbs 1:8,9]

"And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches." [Proverbs 31:27]

"And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions." [Ezekiel 19:2]

"Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches." [Ezekiel 19:10,11]

"A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world." [John 16:21]

"But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:" [1 Thessalonians 2:7]

"The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity." [1 Timothy 5:2]

"When 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." [2 Timothy 1:5]

"The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." [Titus 2:3-5]