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Jude 1:3

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3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

KJV

3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

BSB

3Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.

FBV

3My friends, I was already looking forward to writing to you about the salvation that we share. But now I need to write urgently to you and encourage you to vigorously defend the truth about God,[+] given once and for all time[+] to God's holy people.

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Extra References

1 Timothy 6:12

12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.


Philippians 1:27

27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;


Jude 1:20

20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.


2 Timothy 1:13

13Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.


Titus 1:4

4to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.


2 Timothy 4:7-8

7I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. 8From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.


Revelation 12:11

11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.


Revelation 2:10

10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.


1 Timothy 1:18

18I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,


Galatians 2:5

5to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.