7 Bible Verses about Figurative Burials

“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity.

For there is nothing reliable in what they say;
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.

Their quiver is like an open grave;
they are all mighty warriors.

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.