2 Timothy 2:4

The Text-Critical English New Testament

No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of civilian life, since he seeks to please the one who enlisted him.

Cross References

Luke 8:14

The seed that fell among the thorns are those who have heard, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we aspire to be pleasing to him.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the freedom for which Christ has set us free, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

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

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas, who is in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these defilements and overcome, the last state is worse for them than the first.