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Respectful maternal metaphor, fully clothed mother cradling wrapped infant in lamplit interior.
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1 Thessalonians 2:7

Gentle as a mother

A Ministry That Shares Its Life · 1 Thessalonians 2

Story guide: Gentleness is compared with a mother cherishing her own children. This is an interpretive visual essay, not a record of an otherwise unreported event.

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7though we could have been a burden as apostles of the Messiah, yet we became gentle among you, as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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