"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."
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But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;