Hebrews 9:17

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For a will takes effect only when someone has died; it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life: Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly ratified, so it is in this case.
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.'
  • John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, and do not let it be afraid.

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  • Heb 9:15-16
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    15Therefore, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

    16For where there is a will, it must be established that the death of the one who made it has occurred.

  • Heb 9:18
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    18This is why even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

  • Heb 9:20
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    20saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to follow.'

  • Heb 7:8
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    8In one case, mortal men receive tithes, but in the other case, it is testified that he lives.

  • Gal 3:17
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    17This is what I mean: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus cancel the promise.

  • Heb 9:27
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    27And just as it is appointed for humans to die once, and after that comes judgment,

  • Heb 7:16-18
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    16one who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

    17For it is testified: 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'

    18The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless,

  • Heb 8:7
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    7If that first covenant had been without fault, there would have been no need to seek a second one.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life: Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly ratified, so it is in this case.

  • Rom 6:7
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    7For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

  • Heb 6:16-17
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    16People swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument.

    17Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

  • Heb 7:22
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    22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

  • Heb 10:15
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    15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First, He says:

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if those who are of the law inherit, faith is made void, and the promise is nullified.

    15For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Rom 7:1-2
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    1Do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a person as long as they live?

    2For a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.

  • Rom 6:9-10
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    9We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.

    10For the death He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

  • Heb 7:20
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    20And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Heb 7:12
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    12For when there is a change in the priesthood, there must also be a change in the law.

  • 2 Cor 3:6
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    6He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their memory is forgotten.

  • Luke 20:38
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    38He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for to him all are alive.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

    12The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ.

  • Rom 7:9-10
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    9At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.

    10I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

  • Heb 9:8-9
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    8By this, the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.

    9This is a symbol for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot perfect the worshiper in conscience.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they may be judged according to human standards in the body but live according to God in the spirit.

  • Deut 17:6
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    6On the testimony of two or three witnesses, the person will be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

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

  • Rom 5:13-14
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    13For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

    14Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the One who was to come.

  • Rom 5:6
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    6For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

  • Heb 10:28
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    28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

  • 1 Cor 15:56
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    56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

  • Rom 8:13
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    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • Luke 16:17
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    17It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17In the same way, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

  • Rom 7:6
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    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

  • Rom 14:9
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    9For this reason Christ died, returned to life, and rose again, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.