Romans 14:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 14:7-8

Here he proves what he had before asserted, that Christians have regard to God and his glory in their particular actions; and that from their general end and design, which is to devote themselves, and their whole life, and death, to God. He tells them first, in the negative, that none of us, i.e. that none of us Christians and believers, do live or die to ourselves; we are not our own lords, nor at our own disposal: and then, in the affirmative, he shows, that we live or die to the Lord; we... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 14:7-9

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 14:7.—We are not to follow our own pleasure, nor obey our own inclinations. In life and death we, Christians, are the Lord’s.Romans 14:8.—Christians are Christ’s property, and they must live, not to themselves, but to one another.Romans 14:9.—Christ having died and risen again to make believers His property, will He not take care of His own?MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 14:7-9Life and death harmonised.—In the opinion of most life and death are antagonistic. Death... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 14:7-9

Romans 14:7-9 I. First among the causes of the gospel's triumph, if it be not rather the sole cause, is that the belief in the crucifixion and resurrection was not a bare profession, but a real inward life. That some new principle was really working in and fashioning the minds of believers is always assumed by the apostles, and not in the way of a heated enthusiasm, in which the mind projects the colours of its tainted eyesight upon the facts it sees, but as calmly as we could speak of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 14:8

Romans 14:8 I. What is meant by this strange word "unto"? We live "unto the Lord." It seems to impart at once into the phrase an air of unfamiliarity if not of actual unreality. I will try and explain this. The right and full understanding of it indeed would make any one a master of St. Paul's philosophy, but some understanding of it we all may win. II. We have very close relations with each other. No one saw more clearly than St. Paul that religion was bound to take these relations into... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 14:7-9

DISCOURSE: 1915THE EXTENT AND GROUNDS OF CHRISTIAN OBEDIENCERomans 14:7-9. None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.TO exercise Christian forbearance is no small attainment. There is continual need of it in the Christian world: there... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 14:1-23

Chapter 14In the fourteenth chapter Paul deals now with another issue.Him that is weak in the faith receive, but not to doubtful disputations ( Romans 14:1 ).Don't get into arguments with them, doubtful disputations, a person who is weak in the faith. And in this case, the person weak in the faith is the one who has very limited or narrow convictions.For one man believes that he can eat anything: another, who is weak in the faith, is a vegetarian ( Romans 14:2 ).There are some religious groups... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 14:1-23

Romans 14:1 . Him that is weak in the faith receive ye. The apostolic churches were composed of jews and gentiles. Most of the jews were zealous of the law, and observed the legal distinctions of meats, clean and unclean, while the gentiles would eat whatever was sold in the shambles. Many of the heathen also had conscientious scruples. We gather from Ovid’s Fastorum, that the Greeks and Romans had feasts and customs without number; and some of those after their conversion would not eat... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 14:1-12

Romans 14:1-12Him that is weak in the faith receive, but not to doubtful disputations.Strong and weakHere is a lesson--I. For those who are strong in the faith.1. Not to provoke.2. Nor despise those who are weak.II. For those who are weak. Not to judge their stronger brethren.III. For both.1. To think and let think.2. To give each other credit for sincerity. (J. Lyth, D.D.)The weak in the faith to be received, or the duty of mutual forbearance1. “Faith” is not here used in the sense of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 14:7-9

Romans 14:7-9For none of us liveth to himself.None of us liveth unto himselfThis is seen in--I. Success, which can be secured only by co-operation. When one devotes himself to one kind of work and another to another, the results of their labours are brought together to complete a perfect mechanism. Thus by these labour exchanges the experience of all is made to benefit each. One man does not make a whole pin.II. Curiosity. We are anxious to know about our neighbours. It may be denounced by some... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 14:8

Romans 14:8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord. The Christian idea o/ lifeI. The Christian idea of life: “To the Lord we live: to the Lord we die.” That idea of life is founded on Romans 14:7. In one aspect that is a universal and inevitable law. Now, Paul says that what all other men must do unconsciously, the Christian does consciously. Life has two aspects--the voluntary and the involuntary. Both these spheres of life are to be consecrated.1. In the Christian idea the whole of those... read more

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