2 Timothy 2:4 | |
NASB: No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier. (NASB ©1995) GWT: Whoever serves in the military doesn't get mixed up in non-military activities. This pleases his commanding officer. (GOD'S WORD®) KJV: 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. ASV: No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. BBE: 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. DBY: 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. WEY: 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. WBS: 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. WEB: No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. YLT: no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please; | |
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