1 Thessalonians 2:7

Modern English Version

But we were gentle among you, like a nurse caring for her own children.

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

kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their faces toward the ground and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am the Lord, for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 66:13

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

Numbers 11:12

Have I conceived all this people? Have I given them birth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse bears the nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

Acts 13:18

For about forty years He endured their conduct in the desert.

1 Corinthians 2:3

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

1 Corinthians 9:22

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

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I, Paul, who am lowly in presence among you but bold toward you while absent, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. So also we are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God serving you.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and commanded every one of you, as a father does his own children,

James 3:17

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