3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all 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,