1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

In Context

6Neither have we sought glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.

8so we also fondled you, and were desirous to impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you; and learn from me, that I am gentle and subdued in my heart: and ye will find rest for your souls:

Acts 13:18And he fed them in the wilderness forty years.

1 Corinthians 9:22I was with the weak, as weak, that I might gain the weak: I was all things to all men, that I might vivify every one.

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 →

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