2 Timothy 2:4
No man who enters the army involves himself with secular affairs; that he may please the person who hath enlisted him.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3Thou therefore endure hardships, as a brave soldier of Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Luke 9:59And he said to another, Follow me. And he said, Lord, permit me first to return home, and put my father in his grave.
1 Corinthians 9:25And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Thessalonians 2:4but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
2 Timothy 4:10for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is gone unto 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 →