2 Timothy 2:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ No one serving as a soldier gets involved in the affairs of this life, in order to please only him who enlisted him as 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.

2 Timothy 2:4 Cross References

Luke 8:14

“And that which fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with worries, and riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

2 Corinthians 5:9

So we also make it our aim to be well-pleasing to Him, whether being at home, or being away from home.

Galatians 5:1

In the freedom with which Messiah has made us free, stand firm, then, and do not again be held with a yoke of slavery.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

But as we have been approved by Elohim to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but Elohim who proves our hearts.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and went to Thessalonike, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Master and Saviour יהושע  Messiah, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the first.