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39 lines
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## I was making every effort to write to you ##
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"I was very eager to write to you" (see: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
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## our common salvation ##
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"we share the same salvation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-inclusive]])
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## I had to write ##
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"I felt a great need to write" or "I felt an urgent need to write"
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## to exhort you to struggle earnestly for the faith ##
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"to encourage you to defend the true teaching"
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## handed down ##
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"God gave this true teaching"
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## For certain men have come stealthily ##
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"For some men have come in among the believers without drawing attention to themselves"
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## of whose condemnation it was written long ago ##
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"long ago it was written that these men would be condemned"
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## who change the grace of our God into lasciviousness ##
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"who teach that God's grace permits one to continue to live in sexual sin"
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## who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ ##
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these men teach that Jesus Christ is not true or only way to God.
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## deny ##
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to say that something is not true. |