2 Timothy 2:4

English Majority Text Version

No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of civilian life, in order that he may please the one having enlisted him.

Cross References

Luke 8:14

And that which fell among thorns, these are those, who when they heard, go out and are choked with anxieties, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether being at home, or being away from home, to be well pleasing to Him.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the freedom in which Christ has made us free, and do not be loaded down again with a yoke of bondage.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who is testing our hearts.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and traveled to Thessalonica--Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Peter 2:20

For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.