American King James Version
"No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier. "
— 2 Timothy 2:4, American King James Version
“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.”
“No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. ”
“No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.”
“No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.”
“No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses: that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.”
“A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.”
“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.”
You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things.