“… contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.”
Numerous passages in our English Bibles refer to “the faith”, as in the sentence fragment from Jude I have quoted above, which may be the most familiar case in all of scripture. Even the casual reader can quickly see Jude means something slightly different than James does when he says, “Faith without works is dead.”
That is to say, he is not talking about the act of believing, but rather about the things believed.
