9 Bible Verses about Cherishing

nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children.

Behold, I have engraved thee upon the palms of my hands. Thy walls are continually before me.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, LORD will not hear.

So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church,

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

LORD appeared of old to me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn thee.

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Since thou have been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved thee, therefore I will give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.

For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.