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Acts 2:18-31 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

18. And certainly, upon my men and women servants in those days, I will pour out from my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

19. And I will bestow wonders in heaven above, and signs on earth below: blood and fire and the vapor of smoke.

20. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord arrives.

21. And this shall be: whoever shall invoke the name of the Lord will be saved.'

22. Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene is a man confirmed by God among you through the miracles and wonders and signs that God accomplished through him in your midst, just as you also know.

23. This man, under the definitive plan and foreknowledge of God, was delivered by the hands of the unjust, afflicted, and put to death.

24. And he whom God has raised up has broken the sorrows of Hell, for certainly it was impossible for him to be held by it.

25. For David said about him: 'I foresaw the Lord always in my sight, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be moved.

26. Because of this, my heart has rejoiced, and my tongue has exulted. Moreover, my flesh shall also rest in hope.

27. For you will not abandon my soul to Hell, nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.

28. You have made known to me the ways of life. You will completely fill me with happiness by your presence.'

29. Noble brothers, permit me to speak freely to you about the Patriarch David: for he passed away and was buried, and his sepulcher is with us, even to this very day.

30. Therefore, he was a prophet, for he knew that God had sworn an oath to him about the fruit of his loins, about the One who would sit upon his throne.

31. Foreseeing this, he was speaking about the Resurrection of the Christ. For he was neither left behind in Hell, nor did his flesh see corruption.

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