2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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2 Timothy 2:2
The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 2:3
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:5
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
2 Timothy 2:7
Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
Philippians 2:25
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
Philemon 1:2
to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
1 Timothy 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
2 Timothy 4:5
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
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1 Timothy 1:18
I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
1 Corinthians 9:7
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Revelation 12:17
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
2 Timothy 2:1
You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
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Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.
Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Ephesians 6:15
and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,
Ephesians 6:16
above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
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2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
Luke 12:22
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
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2 Timothy 2:8
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,
2 Timothy 2:9
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Timothy 2:11
This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
2 Timothy 1:8
Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
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Numbers 8:24
“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
Numbers 4:23
you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:30
you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
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John 15:16
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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Exodus 18:17
Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
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Deuteronomy 20:5
The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
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Deuteronomy 20:7
What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
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Luke 9:60
But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
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Mark 12:44
for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”
Luke 8:43
A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any,
Luke 15:12
The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
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Acts 6:2
The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
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Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
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1 Corinthians 6:3
Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
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1 Corinthians 6:4
If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
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Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
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Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
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Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
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1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
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Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Revelation 17:14
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
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