2 Timothy 2:3

Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

In Context

2And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be competent to instruct others also.

4No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.

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Cross References

Judges 3:2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof:

1 Corinthians 13:7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

2 Corinthians 10:3For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

1 Timothy 1:18This charge, [my] child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

2 Timothy 2:10For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that *they* also may obtain the salvation which [is] in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2 Timothy 4:5But *thou*, be sober in all things, bear evils, do [the] work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.

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 →

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