5 Bible Verses about Figurative Burials

Alas for you! You are like unsuspected graves, over which men walk unawares."

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed look fair outside, while inside they are filled with dead men's bones and all kinds of filth.

'Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.' 'The venom of serpents lies behind their lips,'

Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father's power, so we also may live a new Life.

For in baptism you were buried with Christ; and in baptism you were also raised to Life with him, through your faith in the omnipotence of God, who raised him from the dead.