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

Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,(A) so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God(B) but our lives as well.(C)

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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:

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

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But (A)we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children. So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased (B)to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also (C)our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

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