Hebrews 9:17

A Conservative Version

For a covenant is effective with the dead, since it is never enforced while the man who made the covenant lives.

Cross References

Genesis 48:21

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers (I speak according to a man), in the same way of a man, no man annuls or adds to a contract that has been ratified.

John 14:27

Peace 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.

Hebrews 9:16

For where a covenant is, a necessity is to present the death of the man who made the covenant.

Hebrews 9:18

Whereupon neither has the first been dedicated without blood.