7 Bible Verses about Figurative Burials

How terrible it will be for you! You are like unmarked graves people walk on them without realizing it."

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of impurity.

But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery.

Their quiver is like an open grave, and all of them are powerful warriors.

Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

When you were buried with the Messiah in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.