Hebrews 9:17
For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is aliue.
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- Gal 3:15 : 15 Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.
- Gen 48:21 : 21 Then Israel said vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your fathers.
- John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leaue with you: my peace I giue vnto you: not as the worlde giueth, giue I vnto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor feare.
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- Heb 9:15-162 verses90%
15 And for this cause is he the Mediatour of the newe Testament, that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were in the former Testament, they which were called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance.
16 For where a Testament is, there must be the death of him that made the Testament.
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18 Wherefore neither was the first ordeined without blood.
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20 Saying, This is the blood of the Testament, which God hath appointed vnto you.
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8 And here men that die, receiue tithes: but there he receiueth them, of whome it is witnessed, that he liueth.
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17 And this I say, that the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres after, can not disanull, that it shoulde make the promise of none effect.
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27 And as it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die, and after that commeth the iudgement:
- Heb 7:16-183 verses69%
16 Which is not made Priest after the Law of the carnal commandement, but after the power of the endlesse life.
17 For hee testifieth thus, Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchi-sedec.
18 For the commaundement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.
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7 For if that first Testament had bene vnblameable, no place should haue bene sought for the second.
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13 In that he saith a new Testament, he hath abrogate the olde: nowe that which is disanulled and waxed olde, is ready to vanish away.
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15 Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.
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7 For he that is dead, is freed from sinne.
- Heb 6:16-172 verses67%
16 For men verely sweare by him that is greater then themselues, and an othe for confirmation is among them an ende of all strife.
17 So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,
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22 By so much is Iesus made a suretie of a better Testament.
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15 For the holy Ghost also beareth vs record: for after that he had sayd before,
- Rom 4:14-152 verses67%
14 For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, & the promise is made of none effect.
15 For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.
- Rom 7:1-22 verses67%
1 Knowe yee not, brethren, (for I speake to them that knowe the Lawe) that the Lawe hath dominion ouer a man as long as he liueth?
2 For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.
- Rom 6:9-102 verses67%
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more: death hath no more dominion ouer him.
10 For in that hee died, hee died once to sinne but in that he liueth, he liueth to God.
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20 And for as much as it is not without an othe (for these are made Priestes without an othe:
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12 So then death worketh in vs, & life in you.
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12 For if the Priesthood be changed, then of necessitie must there be a change of the Lawe.
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6 Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.
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5 For the liuing knowe that they shall dye, but the dead knowe nothing at all: neither haue they any more a rewarde: for their remembrance is forgotten.
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38 For he is not the God of the dead, but of them which liue: for all liue vnto him.
- Gal 3:11-122 verses66%
11 And that no man is iustified by the Law in the sight of God, it is euident: for the iust shall liue by faith.
12 And the Lawe is not of faith: but the man that shall doe those things, shall liue in them.
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19 For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue vnto God.
- Rom 7:9-102 verses66%
9 For I once was aliue, wtout the Law: but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued,
10 But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.
- Heb 9:8-92 verses66%
8 Whereby the holy Ghost this signified, that the way into ye Holiest of all was not yet opened, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing,
9 Which was a figure for that present time, wherein were offred gifts and sacrifices that could not make holy, concerning the conscience, him that did the seruice,
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6 For vnto this purpose was the Gospell preached also vnto the dead, that they might bee condemned, according to men in the flesh, but might liue according to God in the spirit.
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6 At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is woorthie of death, die: but at the mouth of one witnesse, he shall not die.
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26 For as the body without ye spirit is dead, euen so the faith without workes is dead.
- Rom 5:13-142 verses65%
13 For vnto the time of the Law was sinne in the worlde, but sinne is not imputed, while there is no lawe.
14 But death reigned from Adam to Moses, euen ouer them also that sinned not after the like maner of that transgression of Adam, which was the figure of him that was to come.
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6 For Christ, when we were yet of no strength, at his time died for the vngodly.
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28 He that despiseth Moses Law, dieth without mercy vnder two, or three witnesses:
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56 The sting of death is sinne: and ye strength of sinne is the Lawe.
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13 For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if yee mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit, ye shall liue.
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17 Nowe it is more easie that heauen and earth shoulde passe away, then that one title of the Lawe should fall.
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17 Euen so the faith, if it haue no woorkes, is dead in it selfe.
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6 But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.
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9 For Christ therefore died and rose againe, and reuiued, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the quicke.