2 Timothy 2:4
Every one that serves as a soldier keeps himself free from the business of this life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3Do you, therefore, suffer evil, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Luke 9:59And he said to another: Follow me. But he replied: Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.
1 Corinthians 9:25Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.
1 Thessalonians 2:4but as God had judged us worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
2 Timothy 4:10for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age; and he has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:2-8
Ministerial Fortitude. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 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. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,… Read the whole commentary →