2 Timothy 2:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.”
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“A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
King James Version · Public Domain“No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Timothy 2:4 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 20:5Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
- Luke 8:14The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
- Luke 9:59Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:22For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
- 2 Corinthians 5:9So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.
- 1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- 2 Timothy 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- 2 Peter 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
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