IN DEFENSE OF MOTHERHOOD

IN DEFENSE OF MOTHERHOOD
Proverbs 1.7-9
Mothers Day 2026

v. 7 “… fools despise wisdom and instruction.” (esv)

GOD’S BOOK OF WISDOM SAYS THAT MOTHERS ARE …

Essential TO GOD’S Design

v. 8 “… your father’s instruction … your mother’s teaching …” (esv)

Exodus 20.12 “Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life …” (csb)

Genesis 1.27-28 “God created man in his own image … male and female … And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply …’”(esv)

Genesis 2.24 “A man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (esv)

Instrumental FOR OUR Insight

v. 7 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge …” (esv)

1 John 4.18 “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.” (esv)

Psalm 36.1 “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” (esv)

Psalm 14.1 “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” (esv)

Ornamental FOR OUR Lives

v. 9 “… they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.”

1 Peter 3.3–4 “Don’t let your beauty consist of outward things … but rather what is inside the heart …” (csb)

1 Timothy 4.15 “Practice these things … so that all may see your progress.”