Acts 2:31
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
KJV
προϊδὼν ἐλάλησεν περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὅτι οὔτε ἐνκατελείφθη εἰς ᾅδην οὔτε ἡ σὰρξ αὐτοῦ εἶδεν διαφθοράν.
Greek NT
providens locutus est de resurrectione Christi, quia neque derelictus est in inferno, neque caro ejus vidit corruptionem.
Vulgate
he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
ASV
Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ. For neither was he left in hell: neither did his flesh see corruption.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- οὔτε ἐγκατελείφθη — SBLGNT
- οὔτε ἐγκατελείφθη — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὐ κατελείφθη ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont
- ᾅδην — SBLGNT
- ᾅδην — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ᾅδου — Tregelles
- ᾍδου — Robinson-Pierpont
- οὔτε — SBLGNT
- οὔτε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὐδὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
Doctrines that cite this verse
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5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 4.—About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About the Things Hannah the Mother of Samuel Prophesied, Personating the Church. Therefore the advance of the city of God, where it reached the times of the kings, yielded a figure, when, on the rejection of Saul, David first obtained the kingdom on such a footing that thenceforth his descendan…
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. David expresses his confidence in God as his portion and inheritance. The words "thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption" are directly applied by Peter to the resurrection of Christ. David spoke as a prophet, knowing that God had sworn to raise up Christ to sit on his thron…
He descended into hell.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:42 — So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
- Acts 2:27 — Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Acts 2:27 — Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Acts 13:35 — Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Phil 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
- Ps 16:10 — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Ps 40:3 — And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.