2 Timothy 2:4

Easy To Read Version

A person that is a soldier wants to please his commanding officer. So that soldier does not use his time doing the things that most people do.

Cross References

Luke 8:14

What is the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That is like the people that hear God’s teaching, but they let the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life stop them from growing. So they never make good fruit. {\cf2\super [149]}

2 Corinthians 5:9

Our only goal is to please God. We want to please him when we are living here \{in our body\} or there \{with the Lord\}.

Galatians 5:1

We have freedom now. Christ made us free. So stand strong. Don’t change and go back into the slavery \{of law\}.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

No. We speak the Good News because God tested us and trusted us to tell the Good News. So when we speak, we are not trying to please men. We are trying to please God. God is the One who tests (looks closely at) our hearts.

2 Timothy 4:10

Demas loved this world too much. That is why he left me. He went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia. And Titus went to Dalmatia.

2 Peter 2:20

Those people were made free from the evil things in the world. They were made free by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But if those people go back into those evil things and those things control them, then it is worse for them than it was before.