2 Timothy 2:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the commanding officer.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:4

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted  with the gospel,  so we speak, not to please people, but rather God,  who examines our hearts.

Luke 8:14

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life,   and produce no mature fruit.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord  and Saviour Jesus Christ,  they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

2 Timothy 4:10

because Demas  has deserted me,  since he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica.  Crescens has gone to Galatia,  Titus  to Dalmatia.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing  to him.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm,  then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.