1 Thessalonians 2:7
On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 11:29"Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Acts 13:18"For about forty years he bore with them in the desert,
1 Corinthians 9:22I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:2-7
The Primitive Ministers. ( a. d. 51.) 1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our… Read the whole commentary →