Verse 10

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You allow Your faithful one to see decay.

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  • Ps 49:15 : 15 Like sheep, they are appointed for Sheol; Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule over them in the morning, and their form will decay in the grave, far from lofty dwellings.
  • Acts 13:35-38 : 35 So it is also stated elsewhere: 'You will not let Your Holy One see decay.' 36 For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, was buried with his ancestors, and saw decay. 37 But He whom God raised did not see decay. 38 Therefore, let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 because You will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay. 28 You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence. 29 “Fellow Israelites, I can confidently say to you that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 Being therefore a prophet and knowing that God had sworn an oath to him that He would set one of his descendants on his throne, 31 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 'the living One. I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.'
  • Rev 20:13 : 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them. Each person was judged according to what they had done.
  • Acts 3:14-15 : 14 You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you. 15 You killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this.
  • 1 Cor 15:42 : 42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
  • 1 Cor 15:50-55 : 50 Now I say this, brothers and sisters: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.' 55 Where, O death, is your sting? Where, O grave, is your victory?
  • Lev 19:28 : 28 Do not make cuts on your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
  • Num 6:6 : 6 During the entire time of their vow to the LORD, they must not go near a dead body.
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire has been kindled in My wrath, and it burns to the depths of Sheol. It consumes the earth and its produce and sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
  • Job 11:8 : 8 They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The LORD is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are trapped by the work of their hands. Meditation. Selah.
  • Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Death and destruction lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of humans!
  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.
  • Isa 5:14 : 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth wide without limit. Into it will descend its splendor, its multitude, its uproar, and those who revel in it.
  • Isa 14:9 : 9 Sheol below stirs up to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the dead—all the leaders of the earth—and raises from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  • Amos 9:2 : 2 'If they dig down to the depths of Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.'
  • Luke 1:35 : 35 The angel replied to her, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.'
  • Luke 4:34 : 34 The demon shouted, 'What do we have to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!'
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.