1 Thessalonians 2:7

New King James Version

But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Cross References

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, And carry them in His bosom, And gently lead those who 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 to the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

Isaiah 66:13

As one whom his mother comforts, So I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

Acts 13:18

Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 2:3

I was with you in weakness, 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, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives 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, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged 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, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.