2 Timothy 2:3-6

A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus

³ _b Share in suffering as _c a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No soldier _d gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. ⁵ _e An athlete is not _f crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ⁶ It is _g the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

1. Cross References
   2 Timothy 1:8
   Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
   2 Timothy 4:5
   As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:18
   This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Peter 2:20
   For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 9:25
   Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Timothy 4:8
   Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 9:10
   Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
   Hebrews 6:7
   For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.