2 Timothy 2:4 - Modern King James Version

⁴ No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of [civilian] life; his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Common English Bible

⁴ Nobody who serves in the military gets tied up with civilian matters, so that they can please the one who recruited them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ No man, acting as a soldier for God, entangles himself in worldly matters, so that he may be pleasing to him for whom he has proven himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.

2 Timothy 2:4 Tagairtí Cros

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 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.

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.

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 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.