Tenderness Prepares for Usefulness
1 Thessalonians 2:7-8
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:…


Speaking of the temper requisite to the right discharge of ministerial duty, Payson said, "I never was fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself; when I was subdued and melted into penitency, and felt as though I had just received pardon to my own soul, and when my heart was full of tenderness and pity. No anger, no anger."

(C. H. Spurgeon.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

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




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