Acts 2:27

2:27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, ¹ 

nor permit your Holy One to experience ²  decay.

Acts 8:20

8:20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, ³  because you thought you could acquire ⁴  God’s gift with money!

¹ tn Or “will not abandon my soul to Hades.” Often “Hades” is the equivalent of the Hebrew term Sheol, the place of the dead.

² tn Grk “to see,” but the literal translation of the phrase “to see decay” could be misunderstood to mean simply “to look at decay,” while here “see decay” is really figurative for “experience decay.”

³ tn Grk “May your silver together with you be sent into destruction.” This is a strong curse. The gifts of God are sovereignly bestowed and cannot be purchased.

⁴ tn Or “obtain.”