For a testament is valid over dead people, since it is never valid when the one making the testament lives.
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, neither let it be afraid.
Brothers, I speak in human fashion: A covenant is of a man, yet having been confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
For where there is a testament, there is necessity for death to be offered of the one making the testament.
Therefore not even the first covenant has been dedicated without blood.