life & death

Does these 3 verses address at least in part such hot button items as euthanasia, assisted deaths, & some such end of life issues?

Here's 4 translations & a paraphrase of these 3 verses...



Romans 14

7 For we don’t live for ourselves or die for ourselves. 

8 If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. 

And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. 

So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 

9 Christ died and rose again for this very purpose:

to be Lord both of the living and of the dead. (NLT)



7 No one lives to himself 

and no one dies to himself. 

8 While we live, we must live for our Master, 

and in death we must bring honor to him. 

So dead or alive we belong to our Master. 

9 For this very reason the Anointed One died and was brought back to life again, 

so that he would become the Lord God over both the dead and the living. (The Passion Translation)



The truth is that we neither live nor die as self-contained units. 

At every turn life links us to God, 

and when we die we come face to face with him. 

In life or death we are in the hands of God. 

Christ lived and died that he might be the Lord in both life and death. (J B Phillips)



7 The truth is that none of us live for ourselves, 

and none die for ourselves. 

8 For if we live, we live for the Lord. 

If we die, we die for the Lord. 

So in both life and death, we belong to the Lord. 

9 The Anointed One, the Liberating King, died and returned to life to make this a reality: 

through His death and resurrection, He became Lord of the living and the dead. (The Voice)



It’s God we are answerable to,

all the way from life to death and everything in between,

not each other. 

That’s why Jesus lived and died and then lived again: 

so that he could be our Master across the entire range of life and death, 

and free us from the petty tyrannies of each other. (The Message)