2 Timothy 2:4
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.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
3You therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Luke 9:59Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
1 Corinthians 9:25And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. Now they compete in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we compete for an imperishable crown.
1 Thessalonians 2:4But 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.
2 Timothy 4:10For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and traveled 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 →