2 Timothy 2:4

World English Bible (2000)

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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  • Luke 8:14 : 14 That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
  • Luke 9:59-62 : 59 He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 60 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God." 61 Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house." 62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, 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 who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant. 23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.
  • 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
  • 1 Cor 9:25-26 : 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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    2 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

    3 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Tim 2:5-6
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    5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

    6 The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

  • 2 Tim 2:24
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    24 The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

    15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

  • 2 Cor 10:3-4
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    3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

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

  • 1 Cor 9:24-27
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    24 Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

    25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

    26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

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

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

  • 1 Tim 1:18
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    18 This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

  • Rom 12:2
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    2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

  • Deut 20:6-7
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    6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

    7 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

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

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

  • Luke 9:62
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    62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, 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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    11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

    12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
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    8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:31-32
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    31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

    32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

  • 2 Tim 2:21-22
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    21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

    22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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    5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

  • Eph 6:13
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    13 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

  • 2 Tim 4:7
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    7 I 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 in all things; not contradicting;

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

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

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

  • Phil 1:22
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    22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.

  • Matt 6:24
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    24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

  • Mark 13:16
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    16 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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

  • Phil 2:16
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    16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

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