We were not looking for praise from people,(A) not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles(B) of Christ we could have asserted our authority.(C) Instead, we were like young children[a] among you.

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

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle

As for human praise, we have never sought it from you or anyone else.

As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but instead we were like children[a] among you. Or we were like a mother feeding and caring for her own children.

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  1. 2:7 Some manuscripts read we were gentle.

(A)Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when (B)we might have (C)made demands (D)as apostles of Christ. But (E)we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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