1 Thessalonians 2:7

Tree of Life Version

even though we could have thrown our weight around as emissaries of Messiah. Rather, we proved to be infants among you. Like a nursing mother cherishes her children,

Cross References

Isaiah 40:11

Like a shepherd, He tends His flock. He gathers the lambs in His arms carries them in his bosom, and gently guides nursing ewes.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings will be your guardians, their princesses your nurses. They will bow down to you with their face to the ground, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Adonai— those hoping in Me will not be ashamed.”

Isaiah 66:13

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

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all these people, or did I give birth to them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom just as the nurse carries an infant’—to the land You promised to their fathers?

Acts 13:18

For about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

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 weak, so that I might win over the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means possible I might save some.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I, Paul, appeal myself to you by the meekness and gentleness of Messiah—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when far away.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we shall live with Him by God’s power toward you.

Galatians 4:19

My dear children! Again I suffer labor pains until Messiah is formed in you.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

For you know how, as a father with 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, impartial, not hypocritical.