Hebrews 9:17

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For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Inheritance Comes from Promises and not Law Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Then Israel said to Joseph,“I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
  • John 14:27 : 27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

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    15And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

    16For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

  • Heb 9:18
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    18So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

  • Heb 9:20
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    20and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

  • Heb 7:8
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    8and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.

  • Gal 3:17
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    17What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

  • Heb 9:27
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    27And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

  • Heb 7:16-18
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    16who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

    17For here is the testimony about him:“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

    18On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

  • Heb 8:7
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    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

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    13When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Inheritance Comes from Promises and not Law Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

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    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

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    16For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.

    17In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

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    22accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

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    14For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

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

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    1The Believer’s Relationship to the Law Or do you not know, brothers and sisters(for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

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    9We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

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

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    20And since this was not done without a sworn affirmation– for the others have become priests without a sworn affirmation,

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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

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    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

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    9And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

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    6Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

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

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    13for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

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    6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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    28Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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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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    13(for 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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    17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

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    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

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