4No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs--he wants to please his commanding officer.
4No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs--he wants to please his commanding officer.
1 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
3 Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
4 No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs--he wants to please his commanding officer.
5 Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor's crown unless he competes according to the rules.
6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.
2:4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2:4No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.
2:4No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2:4No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.
2:4No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2:4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2:4No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2:4no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
2:4No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.