 | Robert William Dale - Congregational churches - 1892 - 368 pages
...greatness of His power may be gloriously revealed. IV. THE FAITH ONCE FOR ALL DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS.1 " Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints."— Jude 3. WHILE men were still living who had received the Christian Gospel from Apostles, the faith... | |
 | Rev. Robert Paterson - Atonement - 1892 - 217 pages
...for victory of man over his fellowman. Far be it. It is a contending on the one side as on the other "earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints " : for the glory of God : for the triumph of Christ and Christianity in our little sphere, and as far as our... | |
 | James Alexander M'Clymont - Bible - 1893 - 288 pages
...perished in the gainsaying of XXIL that was thus beginning to infect the Church, Jude exhorts his readers to " contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints," and appeals to the past history of God's judgments for proof of the punishment in store for the present... | |
 | John Clifford - 1893
...the character, salvation for society, and God for all, in all, and over all. THE GREAT FORTY YEARS. " Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints." — JUDE, v. 3. rT!HE history of Christianity is the history of conJL troversy. Our Master said, "I... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Trials (Heresy) - 1893 - 378 pages
...bearing clear testimony for the truth of God, by speaking with no uncertain sound, by contending " earnestly for the faith " which was once for all delivered unto the saints," and by firmly holding " fast the form of sound words." 346 IX. MR. McCooK's CLOSING ARGUMENT IN REPLY... | |
 | Christian union - 1893 - 248 pages
...times and laws. These are the ' ' last days, ' ' the last dispensations of the grace of God. We are to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. The Pauline anathema is terribly conclusive: "Though we or an angel from Hea%"en preach... | |
 | Ernest DeWitt Burton - Bible - 1895 - 238 pages
...in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: a Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write...which was once for all delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old set forth unto this condemnation,... | |
 | Ernest DeWitt Burton - Church history - 1895 - 238 pages
...in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ : 2 Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write...which was once for all delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old set forth unto this condemnation,... | |
 | Michael Ferrebee Sadler - Bible - 1895 - 305 pages
...you." The translation by the Revisers brings out better the more probable meaning of this verse : " While I was giving all diligence to write unto you...was constrained to write unto you exhorting you." It seems to signify that he was preparing an Epistle for them setting forth the common salvation —... | |
 | 1896
...Timothy is to "keep the deposit which is committed to him3;" and the Christian people are exhorted to " contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints *." In short, " it is of the very essence of the Christian revelation that as originally given it is... | |
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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. 
