Hebrews 9:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 3:15 : 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.
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.
  • John 14:27 : 27 May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

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  • Heb 9:15-16
    2 verses
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    15And 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.

    16Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

  • Heb 9:18
    78%

    18So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

  • Heb 9:20
    71%

    20Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

  • Heb 7:8
    70%

    8Now 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.

  • Gal 3:17
    70%

    17Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

  • Heb 9:27
    69%

    27And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

  • Heb 7:16-18
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    69%

    16That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

    17For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

    18So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

  • Heb 8:7
    68%

    7For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

  • Heb 8:13
    68%

    13When 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.

  • Gal 3:15
    68%

    15Brothers, 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.

  • Rom 6:7
    68%

    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Heb 6:16-17
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    67%

    16For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.

    17So 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;

  • Heb 7:22
    67%

    22By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

  • Heb 10:15
    67%

    15And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

    15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Rom 7:1-2
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    67%

    1Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

    2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

  • Rom 6:9-10
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    9Having 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.

    10For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

  • Heb 7:20
    67%

    20And as this is not without the taking of an oath

  • 2 Cor 4:12
    66%

    12So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

  • Heb 7:12
    66%

    12Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

  • 2 Cor 3:6
    66%

    6Who 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.

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

  • Luke 20:38
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    38Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

    12And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • Gal 2:19
    66%

    19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Rom 7:9-10
    2 verses
    66%

    9And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

    10And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

  • Heb 9:8-9
    2 verses
    66%

    8The 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;

    9And 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,

  • 1 Pet 4:6
    65%

    6For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.

  • Deut 17:6
    65%

    6On 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.

  • Jas 2:26
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    26For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.

  • Rom 5:13-14
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    65%

    13Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

    14But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.

  • Rom 5:6
    65%

    6For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

  • Heb 10:28
    65%

    28A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

  • 1 Cor 15:56
    65%

    56The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

  • Rom 8:13
    65%

    13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • Luke 16:17
    65%

    17But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.

  • Jas 2:17
    64%

    17Even so faith without works is dead.

  • Rom 7:6
    64%

    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • Rom 14:9
    64%

    9And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.