2 Timothy 2:4
No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
3Suffer affliction, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
5But if indeed any one may fight, he is not crowned unless he may fight lawfully.
Cross References
Luke 9:59And He said to another, Follow thou me. And he said, Lord, permit me first having gone away to bury my father.
1 Corinthians 9:25But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Thessalonians 2:4but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,
2 Timothy 4:10For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and is gone into Thessalonica; Crescents into Galatia, Titus into 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 →