Connection
The sure blessings of David
Isaiah promised an everlasting covenant, the loving devotion promised to David. Paul connected that promise to the resurrection of Jesus, who was raised never to see decay.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
Direct quotation
New TestamentActs 13:34Open this recordRead the earlier witness
Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. Read the later witness
God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said, “ ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’ Why FaithGraph draws this line
Acts 13:34 quotes Isaiah 55:3.
Paul cites the holy and sure blessings promised to David as the ground of the resurrection that will never see decay.
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