What Does the Bible Say About Honoring Mother?

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Acts 19:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”

Exodus 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

1 Timothy 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

John 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”

Luke 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

1 Samuel 2:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.

1 Samuel 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord.

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Romans 3:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

23 Bible Verses about Honoring Mother

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 19:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 2:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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23 Bible Verses about Honoring Mother

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Exodus 20:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 19:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 2:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote