Write unto you! To exhort! (paraklaleo: imploration, exhortation, invite, invoke, pray, be of good, call near…. From kaleo: “call forth” “whose name was called” … Akin to kello: “hail”, order) that ye should earnestly (epagonizomai) contend (epagonizomai) (epagonizomai: from: epi & agonizomai: epi= superimposition & agonizomai= ago: bring, driue, go, bring forth… agon: assembly (led) contest… agonizomai: contend with adversary, compete for prize, adventure with the adversary) for the faith (pistis: conviction of truth, the truthfullness of God, reliance, faith) that was once delivered (paradidomai: para: from beside; didomai: bestow. give, transmit, yield up, intrust) unto the saints ( hagios: consecrated: holy ones)