1 Thessalonians 2:7
On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Acts 13:18For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.
1 Corinthians 9:22To 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.
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 →