15 And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
17 For a testament is of force where there has been death: for it does never avail while he who made it lives.