But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.
But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,
but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.
1 Thessalonians — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
3 For our exhortation. He confirms, by another argument, the Thessalonians in the faith which they had embraced -- inasmuch as they had been faithfully and purely instructed in the word of the Lord, for he maintains that his doctrine was free from all deception and uncleanness. And with the…