2 Timothy 2:4

Young's Literal Translation 1862

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

Cross References

Luke 8:14

`And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

Galatians 5:1

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

2 Peter 2:20

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,