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Holman Christian Standard Bible
4 To please the recruiter, no one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of everyday life.
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English Standard Version
4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.
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King James Version
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.
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The Message Bible
4 A soldier on duty doesn't get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders.
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New American Standard Bible
4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.
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New International Version
4 No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer.
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New King James Version
4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
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New Living Translation
4 Soldiers don’t get tied up in the affairs of civilian life, for then they cannot please the officer who enlisted them.
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New Revised Standard
4 No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier's aim is to please the enlisting officer.
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American Standard Version
4 No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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The Bible in Basic English
4 A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
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Common English Bible
4 Nobody who serves in the military gets tied up with civilian matters, so that they can please the one who recruited them.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
4 Nobody who serves in the military gets tied up with civilian matters, so that they can please the one who recruited them.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
4 No soldier on duty gets involved with civilian affairs, since he has to please his commanding officer.
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The Darby Translation
4 No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.
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Good News Translation
4 A soldier on active duty wants to please his commanding officer and so does not get mixed up in the affairs of civilian life.
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
4 A soldier on active duty wants to please his commanding officer and so does not get mixed up in the affairs of civilian life.
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GOD'S WORD Translation
4 Whoever serves in the military doesn't get mixed up in non-military activities. This pleases his commanding officer.
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Hebrew Names Version
4 No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
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 .
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Lexham English Bible
4 No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].
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New Century Version
4 A soldier wants to please the enlisting officer, so no one serving in the army wastes time with everyday matters.
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New International Reader's Version
4 A soldier does not take part in things that don't have anything to do with the army. He wants to please his commanding officer.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
4 No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier's aim is to please the enlisting officer.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
4 No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses: that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.
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Revised Standard Version
4 No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him.
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
4 No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him.
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SBL Greek New Testament
4 οὐδεὶς στρατευόμενος ἐμπλέκεται ταῖς τοῦ βίου πραγματείαις, ἵνα τῷ στρατολογήσαντι ἀρέσῃ ·
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Third Millennium Bible
4 No man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
4 No man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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Tyndale
4 No man that warreth entanglith him silfe with worldely busynes and that be cause he wolde please him that hath chosen him to be a soudier.
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The Latin Vulgate
4 nemo militans inplicat se negotiis saecularibus ut ei placeat cui se probavit
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The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha
4 nemo militans inplicat se negotiis saecularibus ut ei placeat cui se probavit
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The Webster Bible
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.
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World English Bible
4 No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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Weymouth New Testament
4 Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy the officer who enlisted him.
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Wycliffe
4 No man holding knighthood to God, wrappeth himself [enwrappeth himself] with worldly needs, that he please to him, to whom he hath proved himself.
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Young's Literal Translation
4 no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
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