 | Josiah Harmar Penniman - Bible - 1919 - 472 pages
...Christians to: — 'Jewish tradition says that they were the magicians of Exodus 7:11. 2 See above, p. 47. "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints." Jude, v. 3. Swift destruction will come upon sinful and unfaithful men, and Christians must build themselves... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - Bible - 1919 - 716 pages
...jude writes to Christians who are in dangers similar to those described in Second Peter, urging them " to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints " (Jude 3). The danger which he confronts, however, presents itself not so much in the... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Bible - 1920 - 482 pages
...Sodom, and of certain men to whom Enoch prophesied. Beyond this there is only a general exhortation, to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints." Peter supports the denunciation by historical examples of the flood and of Sodom. But the epistle of... | |
 | Carl August Blomgren - Occultism - 1922 - 76 pages
...Christianity has become an effete religious system." We surely cannot ignore such a challenge. We must contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the Saints. Jude 3. We must also follow John's advice: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits,... | |
 | Andrew Duff Heffern - Bible - 1922 - 440 pages
...are the ' Christians of the Apostolic Age and of all succeeding ages confidently summoned to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.' And Jude's closing doxology to the God of hope, mighty to guard us from stumbling and to place us before... | |
 | Charles Gore - Bible - 1924 - 70 pages
..." — " the word which ye heard from the beginning " in St. John, or the exhortation of St. Jude " to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered " 1 — such phrases which occur in all parts of the New Testament are sufficient to prove this. It... | |
 | Charles Gore - Apologetics - 1924 - 392 pages
...St. James : " Ye know this, my beloved brethren." So it is with St. Jude : he writes exhorting them " to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered." So St. Paul refers constantly back to an original " tradition," a word delivered, which not even he,... | |
 | Henry Thatcher Fowler - Bible - 1925 - 464 pages
...Christians "concerning our common salvation," to write them instead a short, sharp letter exhorting them to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints. He had learned that certain men, who turned the grace of God into lasciviousness and denied the Lord... | |
 | Edward Payson Goodrich - Ann Arbor (Mich.) - 1926 - 56 pages
...of the" church. While mindful of mistakes and failures the Church hopes it has been a true witness "For the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints". In furtherance of this plan the session requested Rev. EP Goodrich to prepare a historical sketch,... | |
 | James Martin Gray - 1927 - 196 pages
...Holy Spirit and his thought turned in another direction than that he at first intended. He says: " Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write...earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (RV). One might almost surmise that the Holy Spirit had said to him, "the saints you... | |
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Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints. 
