1 Thessalonians 2:7
{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
just as you know how [we treated] each one of you, like a father his own children,
Isaiah 49:23
And kings shall be your {guardians}, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, {faces} [to the] ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I [am] Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.
Genesis 33:13-14
But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children [are] frail, and the flocks and the cattle [which are] nursing [are a concern] to me. Now [if] they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.
Numbers 11:12
Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, 'Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'
Isaiah 40:11
He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather [the] lambs in his arm, and he will carry [them] in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.
Isaiah 66:13
As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 34:14-16
I will feed them in good pasture, and their pasture will be on the mountains of the heights of Israel; there they will lie down in good pasture, and [on] lush pasture they will feed on the mountains of Israel.
Matthew 11:29-30
Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
John 21:15-17
Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon [son] of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!"
Acts 13:18
And for a period of time [of] about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians 2:3
And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all [things] to all [people], in order that by all means I may save some.
2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I, Paul, appeal to you myself by the humility and gentleness of Christ, who {when I am present in person} [am] humble among you, but [when I] am absent am bold toward you--
2 Corinthians 13:4
For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you.
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
2 Timothy 2:24-25
And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,
James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,