Acts 13:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said this way, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

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  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
  • Ps 89:2-4 : 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; your faithfulness you shall establish in the very heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant, 4 Your seed I will establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.
  • Rom 6:9 : 9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.
  • Ps 89:19-37 : 19 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one, and said, I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established; my arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name his horn shall be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He shall cry to me, You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28 My mercy I will keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments; 32 Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David. 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established forever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
  • 2 Sam 7:14-16 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Although my house is not so with God; yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He does not make it grow.
  • Jer 33:15-17 : 15 In those days, and at that time, I will cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name by which she shall be called, The LORD our Righteousness. 17 For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
  • Jer 33:26 : 26 Then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
  • Ezek 34:23-24 : 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
  • Ezek 37:24-25 : 24 And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
  • Hos 3:5 : 5 Afterward, the children of Israel shall return, and seek the LORD their God and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the last days.
  • Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old.
  • Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day the LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them in that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
  • Acts 13:37 : 37 But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.

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    35Therefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not allow your Holy One to see corruption.

    36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:

    37But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.

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    32And we declare to you glad tidings, that the promise which was made to the fathers,

    33God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.

  • Acts 2:24-31
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    24Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

    25For David says concerning Him: 'I saw the Lord always before me, for He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken:

    26Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; moreover, my flesh also will rest in hope:

    27For You will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

    28You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.'

    29Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you about the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

    30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

    31He, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.

  • 11The LORD has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

  • Acts 2:34-35
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    34For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The LORD said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand,

    35Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.'

  • 50Great deliverance he gives to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants forevermore.

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    11And it shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

    12He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

    13I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you:

    14But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established forevermore.

  • 51He is the tower of salvation for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his offspring forevermore.

  • Ps 16:9-10
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    9Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

    10For You will not leave my soul in hell; nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

  • 28My mercy I will keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

  • Ps 89:35-36
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    35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.

    36His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

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    22And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom he also gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfill all my will.

    23Of this man's seed has God according to his promise raised to Israel a Savior, Jesus:

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    13He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

    14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

    15But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

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    7I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to me, 'You are my Son; this day I have begotten you.'

  • 30But God raised him from the dead:

  • 49Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?

  • 17For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

  • 39And I will for this afflict the offspring of David, but not forever.

  • 69And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

  • 9That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.

  • 36For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.'

  • 3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,

  • 15And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

  • 5Do you not know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, to him and his sons by a covenant of salt?

  • 42And David himself says in the book of Psalms, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

  • 24Who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him: you also spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

  • 8But to the Son He says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

  • 1Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, said, and the man who was exalted, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,

  • 5Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.

  • 4The LORD has sworn and will not relent, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

  • 9But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.