2 Timothy 2:4
A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.
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.
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- that warreth
- Deuteronomy 20:5–7; Luke 9:59–62
- entangleth
- 2 Timothy 4:10; Luke 8:14; 1 Corinthians 9:25, 26; 1 Timothy 6:9–12; 2 Peter 2:20
- that he
- 1 Corinthians 7:22, 23; 2 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:4