2 Timothy 2:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

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  • Luke 8:14 : 14 `And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,
  • Luke 9:59-62 : 59 And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;' 60 and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.' 61 And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;' 62 and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
  • 1 Cor 7:22-23 : 22 for he who `is' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ: 23 with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;
  • 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
  • 1 Cor 9:25-26 : 25 and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; 26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, 10 for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows; 11 and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness; 12 be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

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    2and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

    3thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

  • 2 Tim 2:5-6
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    5and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

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  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

    2no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

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    24and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

    15be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

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    3for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

    4for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

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    24have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

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    26I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

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    20Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;

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    18This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,

  • Rom 12:2
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    2and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

  • Deut 20:6-7
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    15for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

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    24each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

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    62and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

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    11and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

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    1In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

  • Heb 12:14
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    14peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

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    31and those using this world, as not using `it' up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

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    21if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

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    5And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

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    3in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

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    13because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

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    7the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

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    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

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    35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

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    11Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

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    4each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

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    22And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

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    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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    14but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

  • Mark 13:16
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    16and he who is in the field, let him not turn to the things behind, to take up his garment.

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    12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

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    7with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

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    16the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

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    21for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,