1 Thessalonians 2:7

The Scriptures 2009

But we were gentle in your midst, like a nursing mother warmly loving her own children.

Cross References

Isaiah 40:11

He feeds His flock like a shepherd, He gathers the lambs with His arm, and carries them in His bosom, gently leading those who are with young.

Isaiah 49:23

“And sovereigns shall be your foster fathers, and their sovereignesses your nursing mothers. They bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am יהוה – those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.”

Isaiah 66:13

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I comfort you. And in Yerushalayim you are comforted.”

Numbers 11:12

“Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the foster father 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 sustained them in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 2:3

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

1 Corinthians 9:22

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

2 Corinthians 10:1

And I, Sha’ul, myself appeal to you, through the meekness and gentleness of Messiah – I who am indeed lowly when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though He was impaled in weakness, yet He lives by the power of Elohim. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of Elohim toward you.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

even as you know how each one of you, as a father to his children, encouraging and comforting and bearing witness to you,

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first clean, then peaceable, gentle, ready to obey, filled with compassion and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.