Verse 4

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 8:14 : 14 `And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,
  • Luke 9:59-62 : 59 And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;' 60 and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.' 61 And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;' 62 and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
  • 1 Cor 7:22-23 : 22 for he who `is' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ: 23 with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;
  • 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
  • 1 Cor 9:25-26 : 25 and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; 26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, 10 for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows; 11 and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness; 12 be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.