²⁷ For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.

³¹ He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

¹⁵ But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

¹³ For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

¹⁹ Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.

³⁵ And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.

²⁰ And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

⁵⁵ O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

⁵² In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

²⁷ For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

²⁸ And though no cause of death was seen in him, they made a request to Pilate that he might be put to death.

²⁹ And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.

³⁰ But God gave him back from the dead:

³¹ And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

³² And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

³³ Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

³⁴ And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

³⁵ Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction.

³⁶ Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

³⁷ But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

³ The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

⁶ The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

²³ And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.

²⁴ Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.

³⁴ Let us be! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I have knowledge who you are, the Holy One of God.

²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

³⁹ Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

¹⁴ But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,

²⁷ For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,

²⁵ But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

²⁶ And ... without my flesh I will see God;

²⁷ Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.