New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Hebrews 9:17
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because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.
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For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
KJV text & permissions
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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ASVAmerican Standard Version
For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
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For a covenant [is] firm upon death, since it is not in force at the time when the [one] having made [it] is living,
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Hebrews 9
15 Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
16 In the case of a will, it is necessary to establish the death of the one who made it,
17 because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.
18 That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
19 For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
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