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Acts 13:36
“For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.”
Verse in context — Acts 13
34
Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.
35
Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.
36
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
37
But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
38
Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
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