because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.

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

but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

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

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.”

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met his accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation.