2 Timothy 2:3-4

2:3 Take your share of suffering ¹  as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 2:4 No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please ²  the one who recruited him.

Philemon 1:2

1:2 to Apphia ³  our sister, ⁴  to Archippus our ⁵  fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your house.

¹ tn Grk “suffer hardship together,” implying “join with me and others in suffering” (cf. 1:8).

² tn Grk “that he may please.”

³ sn Apphia is thought to be the wife of Philemon.

⁴ tc Most witnesses (D² Ψ Ï) here read τῇ ἀγαπητῇ (th agaphth, “beloved, dear”), a reading that appears to have been motivated by the masculine form of the same adjective in v. 1. Further, the earliest and best witnesses, along with a few others (א A D* F G I P 048 0278 33 81 104 1739 1881 pc), have ἀδελφῇ (adelfh, “sister”). Thus on internal and external grounds, ἀδελφῇ is the strongly preferred reading.

⁵ tn Though the term “our” does not appear in the Greek text it is inserted to bring out the sense of the passage.