Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 14:8

8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we dye, we dye unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or dye, we are the Lords .

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 our selves; we are not our own Lords, nor at our own disposal: And then in the Affirmative, he shews, That We live or dye to the Lord; we spend our Lives in His Service, and part with them at His Appointment. His Glory is the White, at which we Aim, living or dying: He is the Center, in which all the Lines in the whole Circumference of our Lives do meet, 2 Cor. 5.9. Phil. 1.21.

This is an Inference from what he had said before. q. d. At all times, and in all estates, whether of health or sickness, abundance or poverty, life or death, we are the Lords Propriety, and at His Dispose; He hath an absolute Dominion over us, living or dying; in this world, or in the next.