2 Timothy 2:4 Cross References - Sawyer

⁴ 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.

¹⁴ and that which fell among thorns signifies those who hear, and going away are choked by cares and riches and the pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

⁵⁹ And he said to another, Follow me. And he said, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father. ⁶⁰ But he said to him, Let the dead bury their dead, but do you go and proclaim abroad the kingdom of God. ⁶¹ And another also said, Lord, I will follow you, but permit me first to bid farewell to those in my house. ⁶² But Jesus said, No man putting his hand on the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

²² For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant. ²³ You are bought with a price; be not servants of men.

²⁵ And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. ²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;

⁹ Wherefore also we strive, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

⁴ but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.

⁹ But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ^{11 (2:13)} But do you, O man of God, avoid these things; but pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

²⁰ For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.