7 Instead, we were like young children2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle among you.
Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,
7 Instead, we were like young children2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle among you.
Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,
7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
7 But we were 2 Tim. 2:24;[1 Cor. 14:20] gentle2:7 Some manuscripts infants among you, [ver. 11; Isa. 49:23;60:16]like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
7 As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but instead we were like children2:7 Some manuscripts read we were gentle. among you. Or we were like a mother feeding and caring for her own children.
7 But 1 Cor. 2:3we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
7 But we 2:7 Or became gentleproved to be 2:7 Three early mss infantsgentle 2:7 Lit in the midst of youamong you. As a nursing mother2:7 Or cherishestenderly cares for her own children,
7 Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, 2:7 Ac 1:2; Jd 17 instead we were gentle 2:7 Many mss read infants among you, as a nurse 2:7 Or nursing mother nurtures her own children.
7 Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:
6-8 Even though we had some standing as Christ’s apostles, we never threw our weight around or tried to come across as important, with you or anyone else. We weren’t standoffish with you. We took you just as you were. We were never patronizing, never condescending, but we cared for you the way a mother cares for her children. We loved you dearly. Not content to just pass on the Message, we wanted to give you our hearts. And we did.
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