1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children.
Twentieth Century 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 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly-minded, and ‘you shall find rest for your souls’;
Acts 13:18For about forty years ‘he bore with them in the Desert’;
1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to 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 →