17For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)


In Context

14 how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

15 And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

16 (For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.

17 For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)

18 Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.

19 For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Hebrews 9:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:17because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for doth it ever avail while he that made it liveth?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:17for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.