Bible Verses for a Mother's Funeral
Tender KJV scriptures for the funeral or memorial service of a beloved mother — for eulogies, programs, and graveside readings.
Losing your mother is one of life's most profound griefs. She was your first teacher, your safe place, your steadiest love. When planning her funeral or memorial service, the right scripture can honor her memory, comfort the family, and proclaim the hope of the gospel all at once. These King James Bible verses are specifically suited for a mother's service — for eulogies, the program cover, graveside readings, or remembrance cards. May they help you honor a godly mother well.
Tender KJV scriptures for the funeral or memorial service of a beloved mother — for eulogies, programs, and graveside readings.
"Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all." — Proverbs 31:28-29 (KJV)
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A 7-Day Reading Pack After Losing a Mother
For sons and daughters in the weeks after a mother's death.
10 pages · US Letter · one verse and devotion prompt per day, writing space, the rest of the verse collection, and a closing prayer. No signup.
A 7-Day Reading Pack After Losing a Mother
For sons and daughters in the weeks after a mother's death.
How to use this pack
- One page a day, in no particular order if that helps.
- Write the answers longhand; grief moves slower than typing.
- Keep the pack — the first anniversary is often harder than the funeral.
- Day 1
The first weeks
Proverbs 31:28-29Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.Proverbs 31:28-29 (KJV)
Prompt: What is the ordinary moment that catches you out — a phone habit, a recipe, a Sunday? Name it.
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 2
Honour after death
Proverbs 31:30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.Proverbs 31:30 (KJV)
Prompt: Honouring a mother does not end when she dies. What does honouring her look like now?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 3
Her faith
2 Timothy 1:5When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice.2 Timothy 1:5 (KJV)
Prompt: What did she believe, and what of it do you carry? If she had no faith, what do you entrust to God's mercy?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 4
Unfinished words
Psalm 23:1-4The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want... Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Psalm 23:1-4 (KJV)
Prompt: What did you not get to say? Write it here as if she could read it.
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 5
Guilt
Revelation 14:13Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.Revelation 14:13 (KJV)
Prompt: Grief nearly always brings guilt. What are you accusing yourself of, and is it true?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 6
Comfort from God
John 14:1-3Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.John 14:1-3 (KJV)
Prompt: As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. What would being mothered by God mean this week?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
- Day 7
Living forward
2 Corinthians 5:8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.2 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV)
Prompt: What of her do you want visible in your own life in a year's time?
The printed pack leaves writing space here.
Closing prayer
Father, thank you for the mother you gave me. Comfort me as she once did, forgive what was left unsaid, and hold her in your mercy. Amen.
Proverbs 31:28-29
The most cited verse for a mother's eulogy
"Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all."Read in context
Proverbs 31:30
Honoring a God-fearing mother
"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."Read in context
2 Timothy 1:5
A mother's legacy of faith
"When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice."Read in context
Psalm 23:1-4
Classic funeral scripture
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want... Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."Read in context
Revelation 14:13
Her works follow her
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."Read in context
John 14:1-3
A place prepared in heaven
"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."Read in context
2 Corinthians 5:8
Present with the Lord
"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."Read in context
Isaiah 66:13
God's mother-like comfort to the grieving
"As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you."Read in context
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
Grief with hope
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope."Read in context
How to Use These Verses
- •Proverbs 31:28-29 is the classic mother's eulogy verse — print it on the program cover
- •If she taught you the faith, 2 Timothy 1:5 (Lois and Eunice) is deeply fitting
- •Isaiah 66:13 is uniquely tender — God comforts 'as one whom his mother comforteth'
- •Psalm 23 is appropriate for graveside reading — most attendees will know it by heart
- •Pair Revelation 14:13 with a slideshow of her acts of love — 'her works do follow her'
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