We were not looking for praise from people,(A) not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles(B) of Christ we could have asserted our authority.(C) Instead, we were like young children[a] among you.

Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:7 Some manuscripts were gentle

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

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

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(A)Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when (B)we might have (C)made demands (D)as apostles of Christ. But (E)we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another(A) in love.(B)

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With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

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