9 Bible Verses about Cherishing

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.

Even so husbands also ought 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, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

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

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.