Instead, we were like young children[a] among you.

Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle

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

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Paul’s Appeal and Warning

14 I am writing this not to shame you(A) but to warn you as my dear children.(B)

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14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

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19 My dear children,(A) for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,(B)

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19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

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To Timothy(A) my true son(B) in the faith:

Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.(C)

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Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

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10 that I appeal to you for my son(A) Onesimus,[a](B) who became my son while I was in chains.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Philemon 1:10 Onesimus means useful.

10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

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My dear children,(A) I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate(B) with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

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My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

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