Bible Verses About Children: Figurative

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: