7 Bible Verses about Figurative Burials

Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

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

There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.

“Their quiver is like an open grave,
All of them are mighty men.

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

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