2 Timothy 2:4
No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
5And if also any one contend [in the games], he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:5And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
Luke 9:59And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow me to go first and bury my father.
1 Corinthians 9:25But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.
1 Thessalonians 2:4but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.
2 Timothy 4:10for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to 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 →