## I was making every effort to write to you ##

"I was very eager to write to you" (see: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])

## our common salvation ##

"we share the same salvation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-inclusive]])

## I had to write ##

"I felt a great need to write" or "I felt an urgent need to write"

## to exhort you to struggle earnestly for the faith ##

"to encourage you to defend the true teaching"

## handed down ##

"God gave this true teaching"

## For certain men have come stealthily ##

"For some men have come in among the believers without drawing attention to themselves"

## of whose condemnation it was written long ago ##

"long ago it was written that these men would be condemned"

## who change the grace of our God into lasciviousness ##

"who teach that God's grace permits one to continue to live in sexual sin"

## who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ ##

these men teach that Jesus Christ is not true or only way to God.

## deny ##

to say that something is not true.