2 Timothy 2:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 3 If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he can not deny himself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of [civilian] life; his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Common English Bible

⁴ Nobody who serves in the military gets tied up with civilian matters, so that they can please the one who recruited them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ No man, acting as a soldier for God, entangles himself in worldly matters, so that he may be pleasing to him for whom he has proven himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.

2 Timothy 2:4 Cross References

Luke 8:14

2 And it came to pass on a certain day that he went into a little ship with his disciples, and he said to them: Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.

2 Corinthians 5:9

8 But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ; and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

Galatians 5:1

0 I have confidence in you in the Lord: that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you, shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

3 Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.

2 Timothy 4:10

9 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

2 Peter 2:20

But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.