The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

“‘Observe – everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

And pointing toward his disciples he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was placed.

And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

So he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine left.”

I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”

the third was Absalom whose mother was Maacah, daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith;

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own servants.