Catholic Public Domain Version
"For a testament is confirmed by death. Otherwise, it as yet has no force, as long as the one who testifies lives. "
— Hebrews 9:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.”
“For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth. ”
“For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.”
“For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.”
“For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.”
“For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?”
“For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.”
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit has offered himself, immaculate, to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God?
And thus he is the Mediator of the new testament, so that, by his death, he intercedes for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, so that those who have been called may receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.
For where there is a testament, it is necessary for the death of the one who testifies to intervene.
For a testament is confirmed by death. Otherwise, it as yet has no force, as long as the one who testifies lives.
Therefore, indeed, the first was not dedicated without blood.
For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to the entire people, he took up the blood of calves and goats, with water and with scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and the entire people,
saying: “This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded for you.”