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
He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all."
Entangleth
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,
Luke 8:14
As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.
1 Timothy 6:9
Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.
2 Peter 2:20
After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.
That he
1 Corinthians 7:22
But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ
2 Corinthians 5:9
Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;
1 Thessalonians 2:4
no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.