2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier serves while entangled in the affairs of this life, so that he may please his superior officer.
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3Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
5Also, if someone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes by the rules.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:5The officers must speak to the people and say, 'What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and another man dedicates it.
Luke 9:59Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
1 Corinthians 9:25Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a wreath that is perishable, but we do it to receive one that is imperishable.
1 Thessalonians 2:4Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be trusted with the gospel, so we speak. We speak, not to please men, but to please God. He is the one who examines our hearts.
2 Timothy 4:10For Demas has left me. He loves this present world and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, and Titus went 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 →