1 Thessalonians 2:11

2:11 As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

Numbers 11:12

11:12 Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?

Isaiah 49:23

49:23 Kings will be your children’s guardians;

their princesses will nurse your children.

With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you

and they will lick the dirt on your feet.

Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;

those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Isaiah 66:13

66:13 As a mother consoles a child,

so I will console you,

and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

Acts 13:18

13:18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.