[a]Thou therefore suffer affliction as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of [b]this life, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.

[c]And if any man also strive for a mastery, he is not crowned, except he strive as he ought to do.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 2:3 Another admonition: That the ministry of the word is a spiritual warfare, which no man can so travail in, that he may please his captain, unless he forgo and part with all hindrances which might draw him away from it.
  2. 2 Timothy 2:4 With affairs of household, or other things that belong to other ordinary businesses.
  3. 2 Timothy 2:5 The third admonition: The ministry is like to a game or justing, wherein men strive for the victory, and no man is crowned unless he strive according to the laws which are prescribed, be they never so hard and painful.

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