2 Timothy 2:4

American Standard Version (1901)

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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  • Luke 8:14 : 14 And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.
  • Luke 9:59-62 : 59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 60 But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God. 61 And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord; but first suffer me to bid farewell to them that are at my house. 62 But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
  • 1 Cor 7:22-23 : 22 For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant. 23 Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
  • 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.
  • 1 Cor 9:25-26 : 25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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  • 2 Tim 2:2-3
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    2And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

    3Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Tim 2:5-6
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    5And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

    6The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

  • 2 Tim 2:24
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    24And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

    15Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

  • 2 Cor 10:3-4
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    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

    4(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

  • 1 Cor 9:24-27
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    24Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

    25And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

    26I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

    27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

  • 1 Tim 1:18
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    18This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

  • Rom 12:2
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    2And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

  • Deut 20:6-7
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    6And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.

    7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • 1 Pet 4:15
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    15For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

  • Luke 9:62
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    62But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

  • 1 Tim 6:11-12
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    11But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

    12Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
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    8for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • Heb 12:14
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    14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

  • 1 Cor 7:31-32
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    31and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

    32But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

  • 2 Tim 2:21-22
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    21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

    22But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

  • 2 Tim 4:5
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    5But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

  • Eph 6:13
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    13Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

  • 2 Tim 4:7
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    7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

  • Titus 2:9
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    9[ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • Phil 2:4
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    4not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

  • Phil 1:22
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    22But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.

  • Matt 6:24
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    24No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .

  • Mark 13:16
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    16and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

  • Eph 6:7
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    7with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:

  • Phil 2:16
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    16holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

  • Phil 2:21
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    21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.