2 Timothy 2:4

Modern King James Version

No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:4

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

Luke 8:14

And those which fell among thorns are the ones who, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear to maturity.

2 Peter 2:20

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.