I place myself in your care. You will save me, LORD; you are a faithful God.

because you have rescued me from death and kept me from defeat. And so I walk in the presence of God, in the light that shines on the living.

You guide me with your instruction and at the end you will receive me with honor.

I will not save this people from the world of the dead or rescue them from the power of death. Bring on your plagues, death! Bring on your destruction, world of the dead! I will no longer have pity for this people.

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Happy are those who from now on die in the service of the Lord!" "Yes indeed!" answers the Spirit. "They will enjoy rest from their hard work, because the results of their service go with them."

because you protect me from the power of death. I have served you faithfully, and you will not abandon me to the world of the dead.

How great is your constant love for me! You have saved me from the grave itself.

Who can live and never die? How can we humans keep ourselves from the grave?

Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Father! In your hands I place my spirit!" He said this and died.

And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.

They kept on stoning Stephen as he called out to the Lord, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"