Hebrews 9:16
Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.
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17 For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?
18 So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.
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15 And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.
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20 Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.
- Heb 9:26-272 verses71%
26 For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.
27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
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22 By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.
- Heb 8:6-72 verses70%
6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.
7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
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12 Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.
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13 When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
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8 Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth; but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living.
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15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,
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6 On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.
- 2 Cor 4:11-122 verses67%
11 For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.
12 So then, death is working in us, but life in you.
- Heb 6:16-172 verses67%
16 For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.
17 So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
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9 Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
- Rom 6:9-102 verses67%
9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
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28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:
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20 And as this is not without the taking of an oath
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6 Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
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24 And he said to them, This is my blood of the testament, which is given for men.
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7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.
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16 That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:
17 For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
18 So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.
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22 And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.
- Heb 8:3-42 verses65%
3 Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.
4 If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;
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15 Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.
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14 And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
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15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
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33 (This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)
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20 And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you.
- Heb 9:8-92 verses65%
8 The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;
9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
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13 And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.
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30 Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.
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6 So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,
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19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.
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56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
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16 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
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9 And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
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7 Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
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27 But truly I say to you, Some of those who are here now will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.
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17 But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.
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12 For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil: