Hebrews 9:17
For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
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- Gal 3:15 : 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
- Gen 48:21 : 21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
- John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
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- Heb 9:15-162 verses90%
15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
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18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
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20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
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8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
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17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
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27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
- Heb 7:16-183 verses69%
16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
17 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."
18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
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7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
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13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
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15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
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7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
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22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
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15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
- Rom 4:14-152 verses67%
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
- Rom 7:1-22 verses67%
1 Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
- Rom 6:9-102 verses67%
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
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20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath
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12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
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12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
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6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
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11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."
12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
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19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
- Rom 7:9-102 verses66%
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
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8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;
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6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
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6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
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6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
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56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
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17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
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6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
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9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.