Study it in the app“Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you, urging you to contend for the faith once for all handed down to the saints.”
Beloved,Ἀγαπητοίwhile I was makingποιούμενοςeveryπᾶσανeffortσπουδὴνto writeγράφεινto youὑμῖνaboutπερὶourτῆς ἡμῶνcommonκοινῆςsalvation,σωτηρίαςI feltἔσχονthe necessityἀνάγκηνto writeγράψαιto you,ὑμῖνurging youπαρακαλῶνto contendἐπαγωνίζεσθαιfor the faithτῇ πίστειonce for allἅπαξhanded downπαραδοθείσῃto the saints.τοῖς ἁγίοις
beloved
Beloved, dear.
Where else “Agapētoi” appearsdo
To carry out an action or cause an effect.
Where else “poioumenos” appearsdiligence
Putting serious care into something.
Where else “spoudēn” appearswrite
To set down words in writing: letters, laws, books.
Where else “graphein” appearscommon
What belongs to all or is shared.
Where else “koinēs” appearssalvation
Salvation.
Where else “sōtērias” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “eschon” appearsnecessity
Something that cannot be avoided.
Where else “anankēn” appearsurge
To spur someone on with words to do good.
Where else “parakalōn” appearscontend for
Contend for something, fight in its defense.
Where else “epagōnizesthai” appearstrust
Truly trusting in God or in Jesus.
Where else “pistei” appearsonce
Once; also once for all.
Where else “hapax” appearshand down
To pass a teaching on to others.
Where else “paradotheisēi” appearssaints
Believers, set apart because they belong to God.
Where else “hagiois” appears2Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
3 · This verse (above)
4For certain men have slipped in, who long ago were written about beforehand for this judgment, ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.
