1 Thessalonians 2:7

Weymouth NT

On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

Cross References

Acts 13:18

For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.

1 Corinthians 2:3

And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak. To all men I have become all things, in the hope that in every one of these ways I may save some.

2 Corinthians 10:1

But as for me Paul, I entreat you by the gentleness and self-forgetfulness of Christ–I who when among you have not an imposing personal presence, but when absent am fearlessly outspoken in dealing with you.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though it is true that He was crucified through weakness, yet He now lives through the power of God. We also are weak, sharing His weakness, but with Him we shall be full of life to deal with you through the power of God.

Galatians 4:19

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,

James 3:17

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful, courteous, not self-willed, full of compassion and kind actions, free from favouritism and from all insincerity.