1 Thessalonians 2:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But we were gentle among you, like a nurse taking care of her children.

Cross References

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”

Isaiah 66:13

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

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child,’ to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?

Acts 13:18

And for about forty years he bore with them in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 2:3

And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became 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

I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you when I am away! —

2 Corinthians 13:4

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him, but in dealing with you we shall live with him by the power of God.

Galatians 4:19

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

1 Thessalonians 2:11

for you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.