2 Timothy 2:5
King James Version
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2 Timothy 2:5 in context
2 Timothy 2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:4
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.
2 Timothy 2:5SELECTED VERSE
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2 Timothy 2:6
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
2 Timothy 2:7
Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.