Acts 2:27
Good News Translation
because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.

New Revised Standard Version
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One experience corruption.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord won't leave me in the grave. I am his holy one, and he won't let my body decay.

New American Bible
because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

leave.

Psalm 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

Psalm 86:13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Luke 16:23 And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom:

1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

Revelation 1:18 And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works.

thine.

Acts 3:14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Psalm 89:19 Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.

Mark 1:24 Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Luke 1:35 And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Luke 4:34 Saying: Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.

1 John 2:20 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

to see.

Acts 2:31 Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ. For neither was he left in hell: neither did his flesh see corruption.

Acts 13:27-37 For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them. . . .

Job 19:25-27 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. . . .

Jonah 2:6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

John 11:39 Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days.

1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed.

Context
Peter Preaches to the Crowd
26For this my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope. 27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. 28Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.…
Cross References
Psalm 16:10
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

Matthew 11:23
And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.

Luke 24:44
And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.

Acts 2:26
For this my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope.

Acts 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

Acts 2:31
Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ. For neither was he left in hell: neither did his flesh see corruption.

Acts 13:35
And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

Acts 2:26
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