1 Thessalonians 2:7

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I...

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto t...

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.