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7 Bible Verses for Mother’s Day

Alikay Wood

Face it: You’d be so lost without your mother. She’s on duty the other 364 days a year, so when that special Sunday rolls around, give Mom her due respect. Here are seven of our favorite verses to celebrate her with faith.

Face it: You’d be so lost without your mother. She’s on duty the other 364 days a year, so when that special Sunday rolls around, give Mom her due respect. Here are seven of our favorite verses to celebrate her with faith.

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. —Proverbs 1:8-9

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Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

—Proverbs 1:8-9

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I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. —3 John 1:4

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I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

—3 John 1:4

Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children… –Deuteronomy 4:9

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Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children…

–Deuteronomy 4:9

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Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. —Proverbs 31:25-28

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Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

—Proverbs 31:25-28

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Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. —Proverbs 22:6

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Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

—Proverbs 22:6

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. —Deuteronomy 5:16

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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.

—Deuteronomy 5:16

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” —Proverbs 31:28-29

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Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”

—Proverbs 31:28-29

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