1 Thessalonians 2:7-11 On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

WNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children. ⁸ Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us. ⁹ For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News. ¹⁰ You yourselves are witnesses--and God is witness--how holy and upright and blameless our dealings with you believers were. ¹¹ For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,