 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1826 - 858 pages
...the Romans prohibited marriage to their soldiery. To this the apostle refers, 2 Tim. ii. 4, " No one that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 10. The return of the conquering army has ever been an occasion... | |
 | John Goodge Foyster - Sermons, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...called to " endure hardship as good soldiers of Jesus Christ." Now "no man that warreth," we read, " entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." One, who is about to engage in labours, conflicts, and dangers,... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1826 - 582 pages
...their profession, but rather considers it as furnishing full employment for those who engaged in it : " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, life, that he may please "him who hath chosen him to be a soldier (s);" and by this example of soldiers... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - Theology - 1826 - 474 pages
...was war in heaven. 2 Tim. ii. 3. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. Eph. vi. 13. Take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day.... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Methodism - 1827 - 1048 pages
...We wish you to be at the remotest distance from all temptation to a secular or mercenary temper. " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath called him to be a soldier." Independently of the moral and religious considerations which... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...thought for your life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 2 TIM. ii. 4 : 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. See on MAT. x. 9, 10. 5 And 'whosoever will not receive you, when... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...shall be able .to teach others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 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. And if a man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned,... | |
 | William Ford Vance - Christian life - 1827 - 376 pages
...Thou, therefore," says the Apostle to Timothy, " endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, 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. Now there are two things which suggest themselves to our minds,... | |
 | Clergy - 1827 - 488 pages
...war do not carry unnecessary burdens with them, which may encumber or retard their march, he adds, No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him for a soldier1. Upon this it is that all those canons, which have been made in... | |
 | Abel Thornton - Baptists - 1828 - 148 pages
...military book, I took my Bible from my pocket and opened it, and my eyes first fastened on these words : " 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." 2 Tim. ii. 4. These words struck with weight to my mind ; I halted... | |
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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. 
