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No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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A Soldier's Undivided Duty
Commentators unanimously highlight the verse's central analogy: a Roman soldier. Roman law forbade soldiers on active duty from engaging in farming, trade, or other civilian business. In the same way, a Christian is called to a single-minded devotion to Christ's service, avoiding entanglement in worldly affairs that would distract from their primary mission.
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2 Timothy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life. Having alluded to the soldier, and stated one thing in which the Christi…
No soldier on service (ουδεις στρατευομενος). "No one serving as a soldier." See 1 Corinthians 9:7 for this old verb a…
19th Century
Anglican
No man that warreth . . .—This is better rendered, while engaged on military service, or serving as a soldie…
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Baptist
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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No one “serving as a soldier” gets entangled in the affairs of this life. The soldier must lay aside all secular pursuits, and the Christian minist…
16th Century
Protestant
No man who warreth. He continues to use the metaphor he had borrowed from warfare. Yet, strictly speaking, he previously called Timothy “a…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
No man that wars Who is a soldier, and gives himself up to military service, in a literal sense: the Vulgate Latin v…
As our trials increase, we need to grow stronger in that which is good: our faith stronger, our resolution stronger, our love to God and Christ str…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle urged Timothy to preach the Gospel with all diligence; here he exhorts him to stand firm in the face of martyrdom…
