2 Timothy 2:4 - New Revised Standard Version

⁴ No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier's aim is to please the enlisting officer.

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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 Mga Krus na Reperensya

Luke 8:14

As for what fell among the thorns, these are the ones who hear; but as they go on their way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

2 Corinthians 5:9

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, 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 message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts.

2 Timothy 4:10

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

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.