9 Bible Verses about Cherishing

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:

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

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give men for you, and people for your life.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.