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


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Hebrews 9 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Romans 4 14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
2 Corinthians 3 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Revelation 3 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Deuteronomy 6 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Romans 6 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
1 Peter 1 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Galatians 3 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Hebrews 7 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Romans 8 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Joshua 1 5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Job 9 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Romans 7 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Proverbs 24 11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Isaiah 57 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Psalms 71 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Hebrews 6 16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Zephaniah 2 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
Hebrews 6 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Psalms 9 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
John 19 36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
Numbers 30 2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Colossians 1 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
2 Thessalonians 1 5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
1 John 5 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
Acts 26 6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers:
1 Corinthians 15 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
James 4 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Psalms 17 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Titus 1 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Ezekiel 3 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Galatians 3 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
Isaiah 55 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
2 Timothy 2 11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
Psalms 64 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
Leviticus 18 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Isaiah 28 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
Romans 4 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Luke 2 31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
2 Timothy 1 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
1 Corinthians 15 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Hebrews 9 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
1 Corinthians 15 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Hebrews 7 8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
Galatians 2 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Deuteronomy 8 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Matthew 23 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Galatians 3 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Deuteronomy 28 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Hebrews 4 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.