2 Timothy 2:4

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

No one serving as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of this life, so that he might please the One having enlisted him.

Cross References

Luke 8:14

And the one falling in the thornbushes, these are the ones hearing, but under cares and riches and pleasures of life, moving along, they are choked, and do not bear to maturity.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore we also are striving to be pleasing to Him, whether being at home, or being away from home.

Galatians 5:1

Therefore stand firm in the freedom with which Christ made us free and do not be held again with a yoke of slavery.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

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

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas deserted me, loving the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Peter 2:20

For if by a recognition of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, having escaped the defilements of the world, and again being entangled they are overcome by these, then the last things of them have become worse than the first.