1 Thessalonians 2:7 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁷ But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ But we behaved gently when we were among you, like a devoted mother nursing and cherishing her own children.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

Common English Bible

⁷ although we could have thrown our weight around as Christ’s apostles. Instead, we were gentle with you like a nursing mother caring for her own children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And although we could have been a burden to you, as Apostles of Christ, instead we became like little ones in your midst, like a nurse cherishing her children.

1 Thessalonians 2:7 Cross References

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Isaiah 49:23

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Numbers 11:12

Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

Acts 13:18

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 2:3

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.