7 Bible Verses about Figurative Burials

Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, and the people who walk over [them] do not know [it]!

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!

For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.

Their quiver [is] like an open tomb, all of them [are] warriors.

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with [him] through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.