Romans 14:7,8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For none of us liveth to himself, &c.— None of us, that is, "none of us Christians, ought to live," &c. The Apostle's argument stands thus: "According to the principles of true religion, and of the Christian religion in particular, we are not our own; neither are we to live to ourselves, as if we were our own lords and proprietors, and had no other rule but our own will and pleasure. No; we are all Christ's, we are his disciples and subjects; and His will should be the rule of our consciences and conduct. As therefore we should not make our own wills or sentiments a rule to ourselves, much less should we make them a rule to others; as if they were to live to us, or, like servants, pay us obedience. At the time of death we do not fall into our own hands, as if we had power to raise ourselves to life again at the last day; but we die into the hands of Christ, and it is he alone, to whom God has given power to bring us to life again." Consequently, it is the duty of every one of us to approve ourselves to our Lord Jesus Christ; and therefore we may, respecting those things of which we are now treating, safely leave every one to do what he sincerely thinks is most pleasingto him, without endangering our own salvation, or that of a Christian brother. For assuredly all is well, both with him and us, in life and death, if both seriously endeavour to live internally to, and to regulate their actions by, the will of Christ. See Locke.