King James Version (KJV)
Hebrews 9:16
“For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.”
Verse in context — Hebrews 9
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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.
For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.
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