1 Thessalonians 2:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

1 Thessalonians 2:11

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

Isaiah 66:13

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

Isaiah 49:23

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

James 3:17

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

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

1 Corinthians 9:22

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

2 Corinthians 13:4

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

Isaiah 40:11

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

Numbers 11:12

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

1 Corinthians 2:3

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

Acts 13:18

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

Galatians 4:19

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