Romans 14:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

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  • Phil 1:20 : 20 In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.
  • 1 Thess 4:14-18 : 14 For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping. 16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first; 17 Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord. 18 So then, give comfort to one another with these words.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.
  • John 21:19 : 19 Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 3:22-23 : 22 Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
  • 1 Cor 15:23 : 23 But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.

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  • Rom 14:6-7
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    6 He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

    7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

  • Rom 14:9-12
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    9 And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

    10 But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

    11 For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.

    12 So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

  • 2 Cor 5:13-16
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    13 For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

    14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

    15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

    16 For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

  • Rom 6:7-11
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    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

    8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

    9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

    10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10 Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10 In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

    11 For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

    12 So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

  • 1 Thess 3:8
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    8 For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.

  • Phil 1:21
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    21 For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

  • Rom 8:35-38
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    35 Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

    36 As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

    37 But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

    38 For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers,

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11 This is a true saying: If we undergo death with him, then will we be living with him:

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • 2 Cor 5:8-9
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    8 We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.

    9 For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

  • 1 Cor 3:22
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    22 Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

  • Jas 4:15
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    15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • 1 Cor 15:30-31
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    30 And why are we in danger every hour?

    31 Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

  • 1 Cor 10:31
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    31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

  • 2 Cor 1:9
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    9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

  • Rom 6:2
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    2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11 If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

  • 2 Cor 6:9
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    9 Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;

  • 2 Cor 2:15-16
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    15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

    16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14 Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

  • Ps 44:22
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    22 Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

  • Rom 6:16
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    16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7 Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8 But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

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