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

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even though we could have thrown our weight around as emissaries of Messiah. Rather, we proved to be infants[a] among you. Like a nursing mother[b] cherishes her children,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 Some mss. read gentle.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 cf. Deut. 22:6.