Hebrews 9:17
For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
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- Gal 3:15 : 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.
- Gen 48:21 : 21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
- John 14:27 : 27 ‹Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.›
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- Heb 9:15-162 verses90%
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.
16 For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
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18 Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.
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20 Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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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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17 And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
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27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Heb 7:16-183 verses69%
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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7 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
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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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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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7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
- Heb 6:16-172 verses67%
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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22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
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15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
- Rom 4:14-152 verses67%
14 For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
- Rom 7:1-22 verses67%
1 ¶ Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
- Rom 6:9-102 verses67%
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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20 And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made priest]:
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12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
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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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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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5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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38 ‹For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.›
- Gal 3:11-122 verses66%
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
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19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
- Rom 7:9-102 verses66%
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
- Heb 9:8-92 verses66%
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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6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
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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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26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
- Rom 5:13-142 verses65%
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
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6 ¶ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
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28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
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56 The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law.
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13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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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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17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
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6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
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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.