2 Timothy 2:4
No one, that enters into military service, embarrasseth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
3Do thou therefore endure hardship, as becomes a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
5And if any one contend in the public games, he gains not the crown unless he contend fairly.
Cross References
Luke 9:59And He said to another, Follow me: but he said, Lord, permit me to go first and bury my father:
1 Corinthians 9:25And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.
1 Thessalonians 2:4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
2 Timothy 4:10through love of this world, and is gone to Thessalonica; as is Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia: Luke only is with me.
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 →