1 Thessalonians 2:7
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7 But (A)we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
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1 Thessalonians 2:11
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11 as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and [a]charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:11 NU, M implored
Isaiah 66:13
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13 As one whom his mother comforts,
So I will (A)comfort you;
And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 49:23
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23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And (B)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
(C)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”
James 3:17
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17 But (A)the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, (B)without partiality (C)and without hypocrisy.
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Galatians 5:22-23
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22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, (C)goodness, (D)faithfulness, 23 [a]gentleness, self-control. (E)Against such there is no law.
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- Galatians 5:23 meekness
2 Corinthians 10:1
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The Spiritual War
10 Now (A)I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—(B)who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
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1 Corinthians 9:22
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22 (A)to the weak I became [a]as weak, that I might win the weak. (B)I have become all things to all men, (C)that I might by all means save some.
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- 1 Corinthians 9:22 NU omits as
2 Corinthians 13:4
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4 (A)For though He was crucified in weakness, yet (B)He lives by the power of God. For (C)we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
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John 21:15-17
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Jesus Restores Peter
15 So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of [a]Jonah, do you love Me more than these?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I [b]love You.”
He said to him, (A)“Feed My lambs.”
16 He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of [c]Jonah, do you love Me?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I [d]love You.”
(B)He said to him, “Tend My (C)sheep.”
17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of [e]Jonah, do you [f]love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”
And he said to Him, “Lord, (D)You know all things; You know that I love You.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
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- John 21:15 NU John
- John 21:15 have affection for
- John 21:16 NU John
- John 21:16 have affection for
- John 21:17 NU John
- John 21:17 have affection for
Matthew 11:29-30
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29 Take My yoke upon you (A)and learn from Me, for I am [a]gentle and (B)lowly in heart, (C)and you will find rest for your souls. 30 (D)For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
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- Matthew 11:29 meek
Ezekiel 34:14-16
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14 (A)I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. (B)There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down,” says the Lord God. 16 (C)“I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy (D)the fat and the strong, and feed them (E)in judgment.”
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Isaiah 40:11
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11 He will (A)feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who are with young.
Numbers 11:12
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12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, (A)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a (B)guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You (C)swore[a] to their fathers?
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- Numbers 11:12 solemnly promised
Genesis 33:13-14
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13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flock will die. 14 Please let my lord go on ahead before his servant. I will lead on slowly at a pace which the livestock that go before me, and the children, [a]are able to endure, until I come to my lord (A)in Seir.”
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- Genesis 33:14 can stand
1 Corinthians 2:3
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3 (A)I was with you (B)in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
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Acts 13:18
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18 Now (A)for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.
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