2 Timothy 2:4

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Cross References

Luke 8:14

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

Galatians 5:1

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Messiah has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

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

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.