No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

凡在军中当兵的，不将世务缠身，好叫那招他当兵的人喜悦。

凡当兵的，不让世务缠身，好使那招他当兵的人喜悦。

凡当兵的，不让世务缠身，好使那招他当兵的人喜悦。

当兵的若让其他事务缠身，就不能取悦征召他的上司。

当兵的人不让世务缠身，为要使那招兵的人欢喜。

凡是当兵的，没有一个会让日常事务纠缠自己，这是为要使那招兵的人喜悦。

凡在軍中當兵的，不將世務纏身，好叫那招他當兵的人喜悅。

凡當兵的，不讓世務纏身，好使那招他當兵的人喜悅。

凡當兵的，不讓世務纏身，好使那招他當兵的人喜悅。

當兵的若讓其他事務纏身，就不能取悅徵召他的上司。

當兵的人不讓世務纏身，為要使那招兵的人歡喜。

凡當兵的、沒有一個讓自己在人生事務裏糾纏着，好讓招兵的人喜歡。

凡是當兵的，沒有一個會讓日常事務糾纏自己，這是為要使那招兵的人喜悅。

夫從軍者不以世務自累、致悅募之者、

凡為卒者、不以世故憧擾、致悅募己者、

凡為卒者、不以世務纏身、致可見悅於募之者、

夫從軍者、欲得其長官之獎許、必專心一志、不以雜務自累。

No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer.

A soldier does not take part in things that don’t have anything to do with the army. Instead, he tries to please his commanding officer.

No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

Soldiers don’t get tied up in the affairs of civilian life, for then they cannot please the officer who enlisted them.

No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the commanding officer.

No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him.

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.

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.

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.

For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave.You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica— Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.

Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.

Then He said to another,“ Follow Me.” But he said,“ Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”Jesus said to him,“ Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”And another also said,“ Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”But Jesus said to him,“ No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

“ Then 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.Also what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it.And what man is there who is betrothed to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man marry her.’