Hebrews 9:17
For a covenant is effective with the dead, since it is never enforced while the man who made the covenant lives.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16For where a covenant is, a necessity is to present the death of the man who made the covenant.
18Whereupon neither has the first been dedicated without blood.
Cross References
John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be cowardly.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:16-23
The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first… Read the whole commentary →