1 Thessalonians 2:7

A Conservative Version

nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:11

just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting,

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will 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 shall know that I am LORD, and those who wait for me s

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who indeed am lowly in presence among you, but am bold toward you when absent.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

Numbers 11:12

Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that thou should say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which thou swore to 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 a forty-year time he was patient with them in the wilderness.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.