2 Timothy 2:4

Revised Version 1885

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Cross References

Luke 8:14

And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

2 Corinthians 5:9

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

Galatians 5:1

With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God which proveth our hearts.

2 Timothy 4:10

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

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.