Acts 2:31

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

“ ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’

For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Therefore, 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,

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.