17For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.
17For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?
15 And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death, for the redemption of those trangressions, which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must of necessity come in.
17 For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.
19 For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
9:17For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
9:17because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.
9:17For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
9:17For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)
9:17For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for doth it ever avail while he that made it liveth?
9:17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
9:17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
9:17for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,
9:17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.