2 Timothy 2:4NET Bible
No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.
Related Verses
Genesis 27:45
Stay there until your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I'll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
Genesis 29:21
Finally Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her."
Genesis 30:16
When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me because I have paid for your services with my son's mandrakes." So he had marital relations with her that night.
Genesis 50:2
Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.
Exodus 1:14
They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.