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 me. And he said, Lord, permit me first to return home, and put my father in his grave.
Entangleth
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is gone unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.
Luke 8:14
And that which fell among thorns, are they having heard, and going away, are choked by the cares, and wealth, and pleasures of life, and bring forth no perfect fruit.
1 Corinthians 9:25
And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Timothy 6:9
For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition.
2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again enveloped by them and overcome, their last deeds are worse than the first.
That he
1 Corinthians 7:22
For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:9
wherefore also our ambition is, that whether dwelling in the body, or out of the body, we may be acceptable to him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.