2 Timothy 2:4
No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of civilian life, since he seeks to please the one who enlisted him.
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3Endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
5Similarly, an athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
Cross References
Luke 9:59Then Jesus said to another man, “Follow me.” But the man said, “ Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
1 Corinthians 9:25Every athlete who competes exercises self-control in all things. They do so to receive a perishable wreath, but we do so to receive an imperishable crown.
1 Thessalonians 2:4but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who examines our hearts.
2 Timothy 4:10For Demas, who is in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and 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 →