20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith The righteous are described, first of all, as building themselves up in their most holy faith. Edification is a grand defense against the assaults of skeptics and heretics. These prey upon the ignorant and unestablished but fail to overthrow those who are rooted and grounded in the truth. We need to be continually built up: learning more, loving more, and living more the grand truths of the gospel. We must see to it that