Hebrews 9:16 YLT

¹⁴  how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹⁵  And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

¹⁶  for where a covenant 'is', the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

¹⁷  for a covenant over dead victims 'is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

¹⁸  whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,