15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
16 For where a will is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.
17 For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.