 | Frank Ballard - Christianity - 1927 - 340 pages
...interests of obscurantism, than that taken from the opening words of Jude's letter — " exhorting to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints." The interpretation of such words as meaning that at some definite time, either in the first or the... | |
 | Anglo-Catholicism - 1920 - 634 pages
..."bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them." St. Jude exhorts the brethren to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints." No doubt these things were written a long time ago, and the men who wrote them were far removed from... | |
 | Missions - 1911 - 1032 pages
...must thank God for the life and ministry of this faithful servant of Christ, and earnest contender for "the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints." ARTHUR TAPPAN PIERSON In the Detroit Pastorate BY ELISHA A. FRASER, ESQ. A friend and member of the... | |
 | Merrill C. Tenney - Religion - 1985 - 490 pages
...the destination at this later date. Content Jude announced that his purpose was to urge his readers to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints" (3). The necessity for this emergency was the infiltration into the Christian ranks of men who were... | |
 | Johanna Manley - Religion - 1990 - 1144 pages
...was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to nt out of the city. 20 Now in the to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation,... | |
 | J. D. Terrell - Christian sects - 1991 - 59 pages
...to the saints about our common salvation but was guided by the Holy Spirit to write to exhort them to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints". Surely it must refer to a body of doctrine which calls for earnest diligence if its integrity and expression... | |
 | Louis Berkhof - Religion - 1996 - 1000 pages
..."faith" has in all prohahility the same meaning as in Jude 3, where the writer exhorts his readers "to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints." If it does not entirely have the same meaning, it certainly approaches it. The apostle admonishes the... | |
 | Denver Sizemore - Restoration movement (Christianity) - 2000 - 200 pages
...identify the body of truth in which the believer trusts or as another term for Christianity. Jude writes "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3, ASV). Galatians 1:23, "The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once... | |
 | Matthew A. Paulson - Religion - 2000 - 297 pages
...to exhort and convict those who contradict," Titus 1:8-9 (NKJV). First century Christians were told "...to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3, NKJV). Today 42 Daniel C. Peterson, "Editor's Introduction," FARMS Review 8:1... | |
 | Alex D. Montoya - Preaching - 2000 - 164 pages
...of the faith. Orthodox doctrines are worth dying for! Orthodoxy moved Jude to charge us passionately to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3). Jude's passion explodes on the pages of the Bible. We need to be well acquainted... | |
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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. 
