7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
2:7But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
2:7As apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you, but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children.
2:7Whereas 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:
2:7But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
2:7but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.
2:7But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
2:7But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
2:7But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,
2:7But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children: