Hebrews 9:16
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
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17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
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15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
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20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
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6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
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12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
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13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
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15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
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6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
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16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
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9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
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20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
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6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
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24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
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7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
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22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
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15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
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14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
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15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
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33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
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20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
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8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
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13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
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30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
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6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
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19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
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56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
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16 Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
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9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
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7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
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27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
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17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
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12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: