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Psalms 16:10

Psalms 16:10 is verse 10 of Psalms chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Cited in Acts 13:35

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King James Version

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

World English Bible

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Sheol is the place of the dead.

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Psalms 16:8–11 · Berean Standard Bible

8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.

10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

11 You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 9:17

The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.

Psalms 49:15

But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

Psalms 139:8

If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

Leviticus 19:28

You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Numbers 6:6

Throughout the days of his separation to the LORD, he must not go near a dead body.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Job 11:8

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD— how much more the hearts of men!

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

Luke 16:23

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.

Acts 3:15

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

1 Corinthians 15:55

“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

Revelation 1:18

the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

Revelation 20:13

The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

Acts 2:27

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Acts 2:28

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

Acts 2:29

Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Acts 2:30

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

Acts 2:31

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

Acts 13:35

So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’

Acts 13:36

For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

Acts 13:37

But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

Acts 13:38

Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

1 Corinthians 15:42

So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.

1 Corinthians 15:50

Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

1 Corinthians 15:51

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

1 Corinthians 15:52

in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:53

For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Luke 1:35

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

Luke 4:34

“Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

Acts 3:14

You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

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