2 Timothy 2:4
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the affairs of civilian life; he wants to please the one who enlisted him.
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3You therefore are to 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 9:25All athletic competitors exercise general self-control—they do it in order to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
1 Thessalonians 2:4but we speak precisely as those who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, not so as to please men, but to please the God who evaluates our hearts.
2 Timothy 4:10for Demas, loving this present world, has deserted me and 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 →