Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy the officer who enlisted him.
New American Standard Bible
No soldier in active service
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.
International Standard Version
No one serving in the military gets mixed up in civilian matters, for his aim is to please his commanding officer.
A Conservative Version
No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.
American Standard Version
No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
Amplified
No soldier in active service gets entangled in the [ordinary business] affairs of civilian life; [he avoids them] so that he may please the one who enlisted him to serve.
An Understandable Version
No soldier on active duty, gets himself involved in the affairs of civilian life, so that he can please the person who enlisted him [i.e., his commanding officer].
Anderson New Testament
Every one that serves as a soldier keeps himself free from the business of this life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier.
Bible in Basic English
A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
Common New Testament
No soldier in active service gets entangled in civilian affairs, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.
Daniel Mace New Testament
he that enters into the service, disengages himself from civil affairs, that he may be acceptable to his officer.
Darby Translation
No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.
Godbey New Testament
No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander.
Goodspeed New Testament
Anyone who is in the army keeps from being involved in business affairs, so as to please the officer who enlisted him.
John Wesley New Testament
No man that warreth intangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath inlisted him.
Julia Smith Translation
None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.
King James 2000
No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
Lexham Expanded Bible
No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].
Modern King James verseion
No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
No man that warreth entangleth himself with worldly business; and that, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Moffatt New Testament
No soldier gets entangled in civil pursuits; his aim is to satisfy his commander.
Montgomery New Testament
A soldier in active service avoids entangling himself in the every-day affairs of life, so that he may please his commander.
NET Bible
No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.
New Heart English Bible
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
Noyes New Testament
No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.
Sawyer New Testament
No one who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he may please him who has employed him as a soldier.
The Emphasized Bible
No one that is serving as a soldier, entangleth himself with the matters of his livelihood, that he may please him that hath summoned him to serve as a soldier;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
No man who enters the army involves himself with secular affairs; that he may please the person who hath enlisted him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
A soldier on active service, to please his superior officer, always avoids entangling himself in the affairs of ordinary life.
Webster
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.
Williams New Testament
No soldier ever allows himself to be involved in the business affairs of life, so that he may please the officer who enlisted him.
World English Bible
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
Worrell New Testament
No one, serving as a soldier, entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
Worsley New Testament
No one, that enters into military service, embarrasseth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him.
Youngs Literal Translation
no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
Themes
Battle of Life » The spiritual conflict characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
overmuch Care » Unbecoming in saints
Christian ministers » Servants » Soldiers of Christ
spiritual Conflict » Characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
Election » Of saints, is » To spiritual warfare
natural Life » Cares and pleasures of, dangerous
Ministers » Should not be » Entangled by cares
Parables » The mercenary soldier
Righteous » Compared with » Soldiers
Self-denial » Necessary » In the warfare of saints
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
War » Figurative » To be carried on » Without earthly entanglements
Warfare of saints » To be carried on » Without earthly entanglements
Topics
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Oudeis
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Timothy 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Exhortation To Be Strong In Grace
3 As a good soldier of Christ Jesus accept your share of suffering. 4 Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy the officer who enlisted him. 5 And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets no prize unless he obeys the rules.
Names
Cross References
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.
Luke 8:14
That which fell among the thorns means those who have heard, but as they go on their way, the Message is stifled by the anxieties, wealth and gaieties of time, and they yield nothing in perfection.
Luke 9:59-62
"Follow me," He said to another. "Master," the man replied, "allow me first to go and bury my father."
1 Corinthians 7:22-23
For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:25-26
But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
2 Corinthians 5:9
And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.
1 Timothy 6:9-12
But people who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many unwise and pernicious ways which sink mankind in destruction and ruin.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has deserted me--loving, as he does, the present age--and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.