3 Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting {you} to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

3 亲爱的， 我曾经迫切地想写信给你们， 论到我们共享的救恩； 现在我更觉得必须写信劝勉你们， 要竭力维护从前一次就全交给了圣徒的信仰，