2 Timothy 2:4

A Conservative Version

No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

Luke 8:14

And that which fell in the thorns, these are those who heard, and as they go they are choked by cares and wealth and pleasures of life, and do not bring to maturity.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him.

Galatians 5:1

Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.