Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on 1 Thessalonians 2:7 in English Standard Version "But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children." Isa 49:23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.” Isa 60:16 You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 1Co 14:20 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 1Th 2:11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 2Ti 2:24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,