Bible Verses about “mothers and daughters”
The Bible contains 24 verses about mothers and daughters 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.”
“Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“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.”
“Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
“Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.”
“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.”
“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”
“Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“‹The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.›”
“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
“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.”
“¶ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.”
“Then saith he to the disciple, ‹Behold thy mother!› And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own [home].”
“When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, ‹Woman, behold thy son!›”
“¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.”