Acts 13:34
Good News Translation
And this is what God said about raising him from death, never to rot away in the grave: 'I will give you the sacred and sure blessings that I promised to David.'

New Revised Standard Version
As to his raising him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, ‘I will give you the holy promises made to David.’

Contemporary English Version
God raised Jesus from death and will never let his body decay. It is just as God said, "I will make to you the same holy promises that I made to David."

New American Bible
And that he raised him from the dead never to return to corruption he declared in this way, ‘I shall give you the benefits assured to David.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful.

now.

Romans 6:9 Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.

I will.

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

the sure.

2 Samuel 7:14-16 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men. . . .

2 Samuel 23:5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

Psalm 89:2-4,19-37 For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. . . .

Jeremiah 33:15-17,26 In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice to spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

Ezekiel 34:23,24 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. . . .

Ezekiel 37:24,25 And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them. . . .

Hosea 3:5 And after this the children of Israel shall return and shall seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness, in the last days.

Amos 9:11 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Zechariah 12:8 In that day shall the Lord protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that hath offended among them in that day shall be as David: and the house of David, as that of God, as an angel of the Lord in their sight.

mercies.

55:3, and in many others, use for that which is in the Heb. mercies.'

Context
In Pisidian Antioch
33This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee. 34And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful. 35And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.…
Cross References
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Jeremiah 30:9
But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it.

Acts 13:30
But God raised him up from the dead the third day.

Acts 13:33
This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

Acts 13:33
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