Bible Verses About Mothers: 16 Mother's Day KJV Verse Cards

These are the Bible verses about mothers kids can learn and give away on Mother's Day, all in the King James Version: the commandment to honour your mother, the mother of Proverbs 31, Hannah's prayer for Samuel, Ruth's promise to Naomi, and Jesus caring for His own mother at the cross. Print the cards, cut them apart and use them for:

• Mother's Day cards: a child glues a verse inside a card for their mom, or for a grandma, an aunt, a foster mom or a teacher who cares for them like a mom.
• A gift for every mom at church: tie a card to a flower or a treat and let the children hand them out.
• Memory verses: learn Exodus 20:12 together the Sunday before Mother's Day.
• A verse hunt: hide the cards around the room; whoever finds one reads it aloud.

The story sets: Hannah's Prayer (memory verse 1 Samuel 1:27), Ruth and Naomi (Ruth 1:16) and Boy Jesus at the Temple (Luke 2:52) have the lessons, crafts, coloring pages and puzzles that go with these verses. For the stories behind them, see mothers in the Bible.

The 16 verses

• Exodus 20:12: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
• Proverbs 31:10: “Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
• Proverbs 31:25: “Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
• Proverbs 31:26: “She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.”
• Proverbs 31:28: “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”
• Proverbs 31:30: “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
• Proverbs 1:8: “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
• Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
• Proverbs 23:25: “Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.”
• Isaiah 66:13: “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
• Psalm 113:9: “He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.”
• 1 Samuel 1:27: “For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:”
• Ruth 1:16: “And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:”
• Luke 2:51: “And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.”
• John 19:27: “Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.”
• 2 Timothy 1:5: “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.”

More for Mother's Day

• Mother's Day prayer cards for kids to pray for their mom
• Mother's Day poems for church, with a MOTHER acrostic
• Honor your father and mother: what Exodus 20:12 means for kids