7 Bible Verses about Figurative Burials
Most Relevant Verses
Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!"
"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.
All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.
"Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison 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 we too may live a new life.
Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.