2 Timothy 2:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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.

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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

And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessaloni´ca; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalma´tia.

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.