Acts 13:35
 Acts 13:35 
New International Version (©2011)
So it is also stated elsewhere: "'You will not let your holy one see decay.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
Another psalm explains it more fully: 'You will not allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
Therefore he says also in another psalm, “‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Therefore He also says in another Psalm, 'YOU WILL NOT ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Therefore He also says in another passage, You will not allow Your Holy One to see decay.

International Standard Version (©2012)
In another Psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One experience decay.'

NET Bible (©2006)
Therefore he also says in another psalm, 'You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.'

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Again, it says in another place: 'You have not given your Pure One to see corruption.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Another psalm says, 'You will not allow your holy one to decay.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not allow your Holy One to see corruption.

American King James Version
Why he said also in another psalm, You shall not suffer your Holy One to see corruption.

American Standard Version
Because he saith also in another psalm , Thou wilt not give Thy Holy One to see corruption.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

Darby Bible Translation
Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption.

English Revised Version
Because he saith also in another psalm, Thou wilt not give thy Holy One to see corruption.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

Weymouth New Testament
Because in another Psalm also He says, 'Thou wilt not give up Thy Holy One to undergo decay.'

World English Bible
Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:32-37 The resurrection of Christ was the great proof of his being the Son of God. It was not possible he should be held by death, because he was the Son of God, and therefore had life in himself, which he could not lay down but with a design to take it again. The sure mercies of David are that everlasting life, of which the resurrection was a sure pledge; and the blessings of redemption in Christ are a certain earnest, even in this world. David was a great blessing to the age wherein he lived. We were not born for ourselves, but there are those living around us, to whom we must study to be serviceable. Yet here is the difference; Christ was to serve all generations. May we look to Him who is declared to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead, that by faith in him we may walk with God, and serve our generation according to his will; and when death comes, may we fall asleep in him, with a joyful hope of a blessed resurrection.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 35. - Because for wherefore, A.V. and T.R.; thou wilt not give for thou shalt not suffer, A.V. (see Acts 2:27, note); thy for thine, A.V. It is remarkable that St. Peter and St. Paul should both quote this sixteenth psalm, and use precisely the same argument.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore he saith also in another psalm,.... Psalm 16:10 or "in another place", as the Syriac version supplies; or "in another section", as the Arabic version; or "elsewhere", as Beza's most ancient copy, the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions, read:

thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption; which cannot be understood of David: the term "Holy One", is not so applicable to him, who was a man subject to infirmities; at least not in such sense as to Christ, who was holy in his nature, and without sin in his life and conversation; besides, David was laid in his grave, and saw corruption, as the apostle afterwards proves: the former part of this passage is not cited, "thou wilt not leave my soul in hell"; which was not absolutely necessary to be mentioned, it being clearly implied in what is produced; for if he should not be suffered to see corruption, then he could not be left in the grave: moreover, the apostle cites that which he intended to reason upon, as he afterwards does, and by it makes it manifestly appear that the words do not belong to David, but the Messiah, and are a clear and pertinent proof of his resurrection from the dead. The Jew (p) objects to the apostle's version of these words, rendering by "corruption", whereas he says it signifies a "pit"; but it ought to be observed, that the word in its first proper, and literal sense, signifies "corruption"; and a pit or grave is only called by this name, because dead bodies, or carcasses, are therein corrupted; and instances may be given, wherein the word cannot be understood in another sense than in that of corruption, as in Leviticus 22:25. See Gill on Acts 2:27.

(p) R. Isaac, Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 69. p. 456.


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In Pisidian Antioch
34And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35Why he said also in another psalm, You shall not suffer your Holy One to see corruption. 36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption: …

Psalm 16:10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
Acts 2:27 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay.