1. The Honor of Motherhood

2. Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

3. Genesis 26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

4. Luke 2:35 "…so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too."

5. Genesis 2:20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

6. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.

7. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

8. 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."

9. Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

10. A Mother’s Role is both Honorable and Wonderful .

11. Psalms 139:13 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

12. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

13. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

14. 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

15. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

16. 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you." Eve -

17. A Mother’s Potential for Powerful Influence .

18. 2 Timothy 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,

19. 15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

20. 2 Timothy 1:5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

21. A Mother’s Greatest Mother’s Day Gift

22. Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

23. 2 "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise-- 3 "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."

24. A Picture of God’s Love

25. Isaiah 49:15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has born? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!"

26. Psalms 27:10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.