Acts 2:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

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  • Ps 16:10 : 10 You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.
  • Acts 13:35 : 35 Therefore he also says in another psalm,‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’
  • 1 Pet 1:11-12 : 11 They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory. 12 They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven– things angels long to catch a glimpse of.

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    33that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm,‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’

    34But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way:‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

    35Therefore he also says in another psalm,‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’

    36For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

    37but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.

  • Acts 2:23-30
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    23this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

    24But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

    25For David says about him,‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

    26Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope,

    27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.

    28You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of joy with your presence.’

    29“Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

    30So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

  • Ps 16:9-10
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    9So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe.

    10You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.

  • Acts 13:29-31
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    29When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

    30But God raised him from the dead,

    31and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

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    26It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

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    9so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

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    32This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

    33So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

    34For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says,‘The Lord said to my lord,“Sit at my right hand

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    15You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

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    40but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,

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    4and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,

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    9We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

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    23From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.

  • Rom 1:2-3
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    2This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

    3concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

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    53Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

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    21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

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    15But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety.(Selah)

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    3O LORD, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.

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    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • Mark 16:6
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    36Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”

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    19and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

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    6For it says in scripture,“Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.”

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    9(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

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    36For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled,“Not a bone of his will be broken.”

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    8Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?

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  • Matt 28:6
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    6He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

  • 1 Pet 1:11
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    11They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.

  • Job 19:26
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    26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

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    36David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said,‘The Lord said to my lord,“Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

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    48No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)