2 Timothy 2:3

Ver. 3. Suffer hardship with me (συγκακοπάθησον, the reading of א, A, C, D, F at first hand, is undoubtedly the correct text, not σὺ οὔν κακοπάθησον of the received text), or “take thy share in suffering” (Conybeare), intimating that the disciple in this must not expect to be above his master: if he would do his work faithfully, he must lay his account to experiences of trouble. As a good soldier of Jesus Christ. This is the first of a series of illustrative examples showing the necessity, for those who in any department would do effective service, of being in habitual readiness to endure hardship. Every believer, and preeminently the believer who is also a minister of the gospel, is a soldier of Jesus Christ, enlisted under Him as the Captain of salvation, to contend against the powers of evil; therefore hardship of some sort is inevitable (2 Corinthians 10:3; Ephesians 6:11 sq.).