Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
That warreth
Bible References
That warreth
Luke 9:59
And He said to another, Follow thou me. And he said, Lord, permit me first having gone away to bury my father.
Entangleth
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and is gone into Thessalonica; Crescents into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.
Luke 8:14
And that which falleth among thorns, there are those who hear, and going forward, by the cares and riches and pleasures are choked out, and bring forth no fruit to perfection.
1 Corinthians 9:25
But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown the people in destruction and perdition.
2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.
That he
1 Corinthians 7:22
For the one having been called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise the one having been called, while free, is the slave of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore we are truly ambitious, whether being present or absent, to be well pleasing unto him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,