9 Bible Verses about Cherishing

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.