And that which fell among thorns, these are those, who when they heard, go out and are choked with anxieties, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
2 Timothy 2:4 - English Majority Text Version No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of civilian life, in order that he may please the one having enlisted him. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself. |
And that which fell among thorns, these are those, who when they heard, go out and are choked with anxieties, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether being at home, or being away from home, to be well pleasing to Him.
Stand fast therefore in the freedom in which Christ has made us free, and do not be loaded down again with a yoke of bondage.
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who is testing our hearts.
For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and traveled to Thessalonica--Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.