Acts 13:34

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God raised Jesus from death. Jesus will never go back to the grave and become dust. So God said:

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

God made my family strong and secure. [145] He made an agreement with me forever! God made sure this agreement was good and secure in every way. So surely he will give me every victory. He will give me everything I want!

Isaiah 55:3

Listen closely to the things I say.\par Listen to me so your souls will live.\par Come to me and I will make an agreement\par with you that will continue forever.\par It will be like the agreement\par that I made with David.\par I promised David that I would love him\par and be loyal to him forever.\par And you can trust that agreement.\par

Jeremiah 30:9

The people of Israel and Judah will not serve foreign countries. No! They will serve the Lord their God. And they will serve David their king, {\cf2\super [236]} I will send that king to them.

Jeremiah 33:26

Then maybe I would turn away from Jacob’s {\cf2\super [281]} descendants. {\cf2\super [282]} And then maybe I would not let David’s descendants rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But David is my servant. And I will be kind to those people. And I will again cause good things to happen to those people.”

Hosea 3:5

After this the people of Israel will come back. Then they will look for the Lord their God, and for David their king. In the last days, they will come to honor the Lord and his goodness.

Amos 9:11

“David’s tent {\cf2\super [118]} has fallen,\par but at that time,\par I will set his tent up again.\par I will fix the holes in the walls.\par I will build the ruined buildings again.\par I will build it like it was before.\par

Zechariah 12:8

But the Lord will protect the people in Jerusalem. Even the clumsiest person will be a great soldier like David. And the men from David’s family will be like gods—like the Lord’s own angel leading the people.

Acts 13:30

But God raised him up from death!

Acts 13:33

We are their children (descendants), and God has made this promise come true for us. God did this by raising Jesus from death. We also read about this in Psalm 2:

Acts 13:37

But the One (Jesus) that God raised from death did not rot in the grave.

Acts 2:24

Jesus suffered the pain of death, but God made him free. God raised Jesus from death. Death could not hold Jesus.

Romans 6:9

Christ was raised from death. And we know that he cannot die again. Death has no power over him now.