⁷ Instead, we were like young children^[a] among you.

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

¹¹ For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,^{(A) 12} encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy^(B) of God, who calls^(C) you into his kingdom and glory.