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 first go back and bury my father."
Entangleth
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;
Luke 8:14
And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Any man who enters an athletic contest practices rigid self-control in training, only to win a wreath that withers, but we are in to win a wreath that never withers.
1 Timothy 6:9
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.
That he
1 Corinthians 7:22
For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:9
So whether I am at home or away from home, it is my constant ambition to please Him.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
for since we have been so approved by God as to be entrusted with the good news, we are now telling it, not to please men but God, who proves and finds approved our hearts.