2 Timothy 2:4
Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy the officer who enlisted him.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
3As a good soldier of Christ Jesus accept your share of suffering.
5And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets no prize unless he obeys the rules.
Cross References
Luke 9:59"Follow me," He said to another. "Master," the man replied, "allow me first to go and bury my father."
1 Corinthians 9:25But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
1 Thessalonians 2:4But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.
2 Timothy 4:10For Demas has deserted me--loving, as he does, the present age--and has 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 →