Romans 14:8

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If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

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  • Phil 1:20 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.
  • 1 Thess 4:14-18 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians. 15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say,“Write this:‘Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!’”“Yes,” says the Spirit,“so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them.”
  • John 21:19 : 19 (Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter,“Follow me.”
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul replied,“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
  • 1 Cor 3:22-23 : 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
  • 1 Cor 15:23 : 23 But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.

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  • Rom 14:6-7
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    6The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

    7For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

  • Rom 14:9-12
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    9For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

    10But you who eat vegetables only– why do you judge your brother or sister? And you who eat everything– why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

    11For it is written,“As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”

    12Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

  • 2 Cor 5:13-16
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    13For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

    14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

    15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

    16So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

  • Rom 6:7-11
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    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

    9We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

    10For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • 1 Thess 3:8
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    8For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.

  • Phil 1:21
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    21For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

  • Rom 8:35-38
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    35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

    36As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

    37No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

    38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

    13(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

  • 2 Cor 5:8-9
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    8Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

    9So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

  • 1 Cor 3:22
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    22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

  • Jas 4:15
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    15You ought to say instead,“If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

  • 1 Cor 15:30-31
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    30Why too are we in danger every hour?

    31Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

  • 1 Cor 10:31
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    31So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.

  • 2 Cor 1:9
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    9Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • 2 Cor 6:9
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    9as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet– see!– we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

  • 2 Cor 2:15-16
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    15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing–

    16to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

  • Ps 44:22
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    22Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

  • Rom 6:16
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    16Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Rom 8:10
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    10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.