1 Thessalonians 2:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:11

As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you, (as a father doth his children,)

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 49:23

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses. They shall worship thee with their face toward the earth: and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent, am bold toward you.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For although 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 towards you.

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather together the lambs with his arm and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

Numbers 11:12

Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom, as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant: and bear them into the land, for which thou hast sworn 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 the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert.

Galatians 4:19

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